HARD DRIVE
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LEVEL 3 - PAINTINGS
Correcting reality by the use of copying and advanced mimetic technics was a highly skilled practice during renaissance times.
Skills that got so developed that they led a generation of artists, across the 14th to the 17th century, not only to discover the principle of perspective, but also to implement the very first prototypes of what would become photography, trompe l’œil, collage, surrealism, advertisement, ready-mades, bootlegs, hyperreality, deep-fake, GAN’s and face filtering.
At the end of the 19th century, while figuration was only about to start its legendary battle against abstraction, a less expected, more alternative branch of classicism connected with what would embodied the dark side of artistic practices, literally its most obscure form : intellectual or conceptual art.
The paintings you are looking at are somehow hidding somewhere on this way and as expected, are not very visually comforting.
They are not beautiful, nor they are smart, accurate, relevant, precise, pleasing, fun or meanigful.
They are ideas. They are weird. They are mixed-feelings, they are hybrid emotions.
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Show / Exhibition Design & Production for
HARD DRIVE FW22 @marineserre_official
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Sound design & Exhibition music @prsseau
Lighting @lightlab.studio
📷 @avoir.ig
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🙏🏻❤️ @lafayetteanticipations@rebeccalamarchevadel@oma.eu
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“It’s conceptual art dressed in figuration. It’s just another fashion hybrid.” AVOIR after Hans Ulrich Obrist