Mixed Media & Acrylic in canvas
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville
The image dimensions for "Les Ombre des nuages de la ville" are: 70 cm high consistent for all images, with the length varying depending on the image
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The images in “TURBULENCES” represent some explorations of the deep links between mathematics and nature, and the way biological forms may use simple rules to evolve complex shape and behaviors.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville works with the paradox of photography in an attempt to ground and interpret an experience of reality within an artistic visual universe. They are preoccupied by the particular visuality and aesthetics of photography, but it is basically its relation to reality that seems to determine the choice of medium.
One of the recurring problematics within these works concerns the relationship between the visual and the social. That is, the divide between being visually conscious about the basic formal elements of the picture, while these are simultaneously linked to an external concrete reality. One is prone to view Dragot's works as a purely formalist based photography, but it is not as simple as that. His abstractions regarding the possibilities of form actually contain a distinct obligation towards the social reality of which Dragot is a part.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville is a series of ten different images printed in an edition of three (with one artist proof) using the Epson Ultrachrome Archival Ink System.
With the release of "L'Ombre des nuages de la ville", each image has been meticulously crafted to assimilate the visual and photographic possibilities now available in digital processes. The result is a similar, yet significantly different feel to the sense of space and three-dimensional photographic quality represented by each image. In each print, colors have been refined, contrast altered, and detail enriched. The image dimensions for "L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" are: 70 cm high consistent for all images, with the length varying depending on the image.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville Paintings are abstract, minimalist video pieces, inspired at first by Mondriani's style of geometrical compositions and the notion to build pictures from the simplest element - straight lines and primary colours. The static world of the picture frame is now replaced with dynamic movement that revitalizes painting and enables the medium to address the mediaization of both culture and sign.
Each work is a hand-crafted animation created entirely on the computer using custom algorithms and animation software and without the use of prerecorded video or still footage.
Each of the systems that describes any individual image is made up of a number of discrete but quite simple algorithms that influence one another according to the ways in which they are connected.
"L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" Motion Paintings (TURBULENCES) are using the fusion of digital technology with the raw expressiveness of abstraction. These works update painting to function and have relevance in our media saturated world, while simultaneously breaking new ground for the medium of video.
Videos play on the idea of pictorial process and the macroscopic approach of a painting's vision.
One watches a video but it's painting in movement he sees, one contemplates a painting but it looks like a computer-remade photography. Connections between the media are established and banish the differences.
Historically, painting was the first attempt to represent reality by way of the image. By the historical study of perception and image production, painting has always been confronted to technical evolutions (optical with the lens, chemical with photography, algorythmical with computers)
"L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" Motion Paintings, emerges as an abstract art form, like painting began as a medium used to represent reality and gradually diverged to abstraction.
LCD screens will frame these works and locate them within the art-historical context of painting.
This videos are not created by conventional 3D modeling or digital painting techniques. They are formed purely from mathematical systems that distort 2- Dimensional Cartesian space in various ways and assign values to the luminance and RGB colors distribution of those distortions.
This pieces adds a minimalist edge to any interior space.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville works with the paradox of photography in an attempt to ground and interpret an experience of reality within an artistic visual universe. They are preoccupied by the particular visuality and aesthetics of photography, but it is basically its relation to reality that seems to determine the choice of medium.
One of the recurring problematics within these works concerns the relationship between the visual and the social. That is, the divide between being visually conscious about the basic formal elements of the picture, while these are simultaneously linked to an external concrete reality. One is prone to view Dragot's works as a purely formalist based photography, but it is not as simple as that. His abstractions regarding the possibilities of form actually contain a distinct obligation towards the social reality of which Dragot is a part.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville is a series of ten different images printed in an edition of three (with one artist proof) using the Epson Ultrachrome Archival Ink System.
With the release of "L'Ombre des nuages de la ville", each image has been meticulously crafted to assimilate the visual and photographic possibilities now available in digital processes. The result is a similar, yet significantly different feel to the sense of space and three-dimensional photographic quality represented by each image. In each print, colors have been refined, contrast altered, and detail enriched. The image dimensions for "L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" are: 70 cm high consistent for all images, with the length varying depending on the image.
L'Ombre des nuages de la ville Paintings are abstract, minimalist video pieces, inspired at first by Mondriani's style of geometrical compositions and the notion to build pictures from the simplest element - straight lines and primary colours. The static world of the picture frame is now replaced with dynamic movement that revitalizes painting and enables the medium to address the mediaization of both culture and sign.
Each work is a hand-crafted animation created entirely on the computer using custom algorithms and animation software and without the use of prerecorded video or still footage.
Each of the systems that describes any individual image is made up of a number of discrete but quite simple algorithms that influence one another according to the ways in which they are connected.
"L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" Motion Paintings (TURBULENCES) are using the fusion of digital technology with the raw expressiveness of abstraction. These works update painting to function and have relevance in our media saturated world, while simultaneously breaking new ground for the medium of video.
Videos play on the idea of pictorial process and the macroscopic approach of a painting's vision.
One watches a video but it's painting in movement he sees, one contemplates a painting but it looks like a computer-remade photography. Connections between the media are established and banish the differences.
Historically, painting was the first attempt to represent reality by way of the image. By the historical study of perception and image production, painting has always been confronted to technical evolutions (optical with the lens, chemical with photography, algorythmical with computers)
"L'Ombre des nuages de la ville" Motion Paintings, emerges as an abstract art form, like painting began as a medium used to represent reality and gradually diverged to abstraction.
LCD screens will frame these works and locate them within the art-historical context of painting.
This videos are not created by conventional 3D modeling or digital painting techniques. They are formed purely from mathematical systems that distort 2- Dimensional Cartesian space in various ways and assign values to the luminance and RGB colors distribution of those distortions.
This pieces adds a minimalist edge to any interior space.