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EDITORIAL - Advertising Culture
By Jacques Doyon
It is not surprising that the world of advertising has become an object of investigation and aesthetic appropriation for contemporary artists. Advertising has an important place in Western culture. It is omnipresent in the urban environment, and it literally inundates the communications media, in which it rivals news, entertainment, and culture.
Le World Press Photo ou le photojournalisme au Salon
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. –Read the Abstract
Le World Press Photo of the Year est décerné annuellement à l’auteur de l’image la plus exemplaire d’un fait d’actualité récent. Créé en 1955 à l’occasion de la célébration du 25e anniversaire du syndicat des photographes néerlandais,
PORTFOLIO - Doyon-Rivest, Thanks for being there
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Depuis la création de leur duo, « la firme Doyon-Rivest », en 2000, les artistes Mathieu Doyon et Simon Rivest travaillent sur les interrelations entre la publicité et l’art en mimant les façons de faire de la publicité pour mieux en interroger les spécificités et le fonctionnement.
Les produits dérivés de la firme Doyon-Rivest, publicité, multiple ou ready-made ?
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. –Read the Abstract
Depuis la création de leur duo, « la firme Doyon-Rivest », en 2000, les artistes Mathieu Doyon et Simon Rivest travaillent sur les interrelations entre la publicité et l’art. Plus précisément, le duo d’artistes mime les façons de faire de la publicité pour mieux en interroger les spécificités et le fonctionnement.
PORTFOLIO - Mike Yuhasz, Great north development group
Multidisciplinary artist Mike Yuhasz’s Great North Development Group project explores the way we conceive of and relate to land in today’s complex world. Yuhasz’s confected, prearranged, set-up, and situational photographic and informational material carries contradictory and duplicitous messages about the consumer ethos.
The World According to Mike Yuhasz…The Development Mystique
Multidisciplinary artist Mike Yuhasz’s Great North Development Group project explores the way that we conceive of and relate to land in today’s complex world. Great North Development thus becomes testament to the spirit of our era as envisioned by an artist who actually lives in the north – Dawson City, the Yukon, to be more specific.
PORTFOLIO - Frank Breuer, Warehouses and logos
Cologne-based photographer Frank Breuer is a virtuoso of profuse emptiness. His photographs of the bleak but strangely beautiful warehouses and of the logo-bearing, corporate, pylon-like signs that often stand nearby seem largely emptied of discursive, annotative meaning.
Objecthood and presentness, the photographs of Frank Breuer
Cologne-based photographer Frank Breuer is a virtuoso of profuse emptiness. For the last half-dozen years or so, he has been turning the mediated impassivity of his large-format camera to the recording of standardized, generalized industrial spaces in the Ruhr area of Germany, in the Netherlands and Belgium, and, sometimes, in northern France.
