artist:Valéry Grancher
"Google" Oil on canvas (100 * 81 cm.) 2001.
"YAHOO" watercolour on paper ( A4 format ) 2003. Private collection / collection priv嶪
Internet painting project
(Quote from Nomemory project)
 A project by Valéry Grancher 1995 - 2005 No memory "(...)As an artist, a word which sounds obsolete to me, I would define an artist as someone reflecting over aesthetics in a given reality, someone creating something. In my case, I work mostly with media of all kinds, from video, photography, sometimes advertisement, marketing via Internet and this rebounding relationship with a reality of mediation perceived at the individual level triggers my interest, more than the one understood subjectively or in a phenomenological way, that is concomitant realities, whether collective or societal which intersect, their interactions with identity, memory, temporality, a given space. The Internet is a rather specific media because it allows strange situations as I said earlier which correspond to moments of 24hours, localized or global spaces confronted to a location and one individual experience. I certainly consider the Internet at a more symbolic level in relationship to our daily reality - I do not belong to a technological system which consists of generating new technologies to be grafted upon the Internet and thus supports the modern, progressive or positivist orders- I am only interested in the human experience brought up by this particular media. (...)" Interview Valéry Grancher 2002.03 |
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