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Surimage Painting (translated from the french) |
The current world is full with images, it is obvious. It is attractive to take to task this landscape of images determined and to make of it the base of an art which transforms and shows the transformation into work. As the work which uses materials to produce a new object. |
In practice, one will choose one or the other existing image of our time when publicity occupies the minds, and all the genie will consist in generating another image which keeps in it the share of its origin. As each single individual carries the gene share of his parents which it inherits a certain resemblance. |
The recovered image is initially detached from its advertising context by recovery of painting or cutting and reframing in another format. Then there new image appears by shade off (estompage) the printed paper or by the application of painting, lightening of printed inks or addition of painted surfaces. Like light and obscure, graphics or the color formerly modulated the white canvas or the wall with fresco. |
The
majority of the images thus worked result from commercial
publicity, because the current proliferation of these
images works itself the public. In answer, dialectical art has the intention
of reappropriate back these images and this public. It
will thus seek to modify the particular relation of the
human, alienated to the commercial message, by
reintroducing the forgotten human reality. |
The
original image is recycled or recovered, recut or
recomposed, improved or repainted, covered or altered,
recreated or reinvented to become gradually an art work. |
Michel Wauthoz, ©2000. |
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