 Nil posse creari de nib. Lucretius 1. Louis Joncas has been working on this immense series of still-lifes for over a decade now; as of 2004 there are more than a hundred of them.
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NO IMAGE AVAILABLE The Archive Peter Piller contains tens of thousands of press images that Piller started to collect while employed at an advertising agency. The numbing task of endlessly scanning publications day in and day out became engaging when Piller started to clip and organize images from the newspapers.  Over the course of the last few decades, the pressing issue of alterity – “Other” and “otherness” – has been admirably foregrounded in a number of disciplines and, with increasing frequency, in contemporary art practice and discourse.  Luis Jacob’s Album VI is the latest instalment in his ongoing series of archival projects.
In its entirety, this album contains 162 plates, each containing between two and six found images.  For thirty years, W. H. Hunt has been building a photography collection that brings together 1,200 works marked by the absence of sight in the photographed subjects. Composed of classical and contemporary works by renowned artists,
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W. M. Hunt’s photograph collection Collection Dancing Bear whispers some secrets about photography. It is full of mystery, chaos, darkness, and excitement. It is unpredictable. It is creepy. It is provocative.  For more than fifty years, Fred Herzog has roamed the streets of Vancouver. His camera dwells on the raw fabric of the city: second-hand stores, restaurants, storefront windows, barbershops, and vacant lots, and the people using those spaces.  “When you have seen the city to a point when you think you have done it all, the horizon will suddenly sustain a crack and a new cycle of hitherto unseen phenomena will begin to form shadows on your film.” – Fred Herzog This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Voir aussi l'article reliéIMAGES NON DISPONIBLES S’inscrivant dans la suite des acquis de la performance, de l’art conceptuel et de Fluxus, les expérimentations d’Erwin Wurm désacralisent la figure de l’artiste et dissèquent les éléments de la sculpture en les mettant en relation avec les gestes de tous les jours. This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Abstract Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artisteL’homme est seulement un être humain quand il joue.–Schiller, Lettres sur l’éducation esthétique de l’homme, 1795
Instables, disloquées et souvent bancales, les situations dans lesquelles nous implique Erwin Wurm sont tout entières à mettre sous le signe de la potentialité.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Abstract Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artisteDans un ouvrage de 1913 qui portait sur le photodynamisme, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, artiste futuriste italien, affirmait pouvoir contribuer aux études sur le mouvement qui florissaient à cette époque.
 The Detritus series is an ongoing investigation of Joncas’s material existence, informed by still-life painting and vanitas. The series depicts the detritus of domestic life and everyday survival. It questions rituals and banal chores – such as cleaning, eating, grooming, and consuming – that leave behind an endless trail of detritus.  What began as a self portrait project eventually became an image world depicting the objects and beings that nourish Wang’s identity.  During the past three years, I accumulated images on different attempts, but all the attempts had similar results, I treated them all as my self-portrait. . . . No matter what the camera focuses on, people or still life, the consciousness of self-cognition hence is hidden in my art practice. The image presents a part of the objects themselves and a part of my mirror-self, from which I discover my existence. –Chih-Chien Wang  Roy Arden’s piece presents a kaleidoscopic flux of some 10,000 images extracted from the web, depicting different manifestations of the concrete world. Structured around arbitrary entries, it deploys so many numerous variations that we are left in a state of amazement and confusion.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Avec leur caractère intime et un style qui entremêle adroitement l’autobiographie, la fiction et le documentaire, les séries photographiques de Raymonde April ont influencé toute une génération d’artistes et lui ont valu, en 2003, l’obtention du prix Paul-Émile Borduas.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. Voir aussi l'article reliéLes séries des Chutes de Gwenaël Bélanger sont à inscrire dans la foulée des études sur la transcription du mouvement qui ont marqué le début du XXe siècle. Chacune des séries exploite une modalité séquentielle pour restituer la trajectoire d’objets du quotidien abandonnés en chute libre.  This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Summary Voir aussi le portfolio de l'artistePar Emmanuel Galland SI LA TENDANCE SE MAINTIENT… Au début des années 90, Nicolas Baier s’acoquinait avec la tendance majeure de la photographie dite plasticienne dans son défilé de caissons lumineux et autres installations stigmatisées par un médium qui décide de sortir de sa surface et de prendre de l’expansion extra-bidimensionnelle.
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For the past fifteen years, I have been interested in the material agency of both documentary photography and the visual display aesthetics of public advertising, and in how these two forms come together in configurations of urban space to mediate a dialectic of appearances between public and private realms of experience.
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