 In today’s world, the blurring between the urban landscape and the mediascape increasingly typifies our experience of our environment. Robert Walker’s body of work illustrates this blurring in a remarkable manner.
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Robert Walker Robert Walker turned to photography in 1975, after detours into abstract painting and conceptual art. Imagery was present in his conceptual production in the form of quasi-generic, By Jacques Doyon Photographing the street, over time, to record the evolution of the city and how it is used is a strategy that remains current. In these pages, it reveals the survival of small businesses in the era of globalization of markets, it allows us to follow the radical transformation of a city centre, and it confronts us with the invasive illusion of advertising images that rival reality. 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.
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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.  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. This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Voir aussi l'article reliéDepuis 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.
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. –Read the Abstract Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artisteDepuis 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.
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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.
 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.
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