Paul Destieu
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Work from his oeuvre.
“(RE)MAKE Tutorial ” is a multimedia piece entirely based on popular, free and available web found elements : a software for image retouching, an online music listening platform, and a picture found on internet.
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This work appears as a “work in progress”, an accidental proposition, similar to a tutorial through its assembling process. (RE)MAKE Tutorial is a low tech adaptation which revisits one of the most traumatizing Hollywood’s cinema production: JAWS. The motionless photography of the sea is brought back to life thanks to the simple Photoshop selection tool.”
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“My Favourite Landscape is made of 500 70 x 50 cm offset prints. It is a reappropriation of the well known Windows XP desktop : Green Hill. Taking advantage of the weakness of the computer, it sets the common bug out of its context, on a wall, expending it to a much bigger scale. The famous picture finds a new landscape shape out of its usual frame.”
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“The installation NADAL Beta consists in a purview which is meant to insert and to deploy itself within an architectural in order to animate it. The installation proposes a degenerated form of tennis loaded by a canon ball. The machine propels balls on a meticulously calibrated trajectory in order to generate a space emulation.
The installation develops a kind of clinical juggling generated by a radical and mecanical purview… Among this perspective, the intervention questions notions of shifting process and network in order to produce an innovative plastic concretisation of circulation within a steady space.”
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