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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.
As the old work of art which was devoted to the lords
celestial or terrestrial of the feudal time. |
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.
In this manner, the work of art surimage manifestes
(shows) the possible character of change in the cultural
sphere. Like it expresses there the universal character
of the necessary change in all the other human spheres of
activity. |
Michel Wauthoz, ©2000. |
version française | Art & Philosophy | Laboratories of
Dialectic | Communication |