Vis-à-Vis des genres

Grzegorz Pawlak prepares a thesis in Fine Arts at the Picardie Jules Verne University. He lives and works in Amiens. His artistic approach is oriented towards the interrogation of an underlying poetic dimension in everyday life, throughout small glance shifts he gathers in short films.
Reconstituting frames and sounds from the ordinary aspects of objects and [...]

Thomas Girard is a graduate of a master’s degree in Fine Arts as well as in Art History, and lives in Beauvais. He has been working for a few years around the theme of still life, and even more precisely about the representation of objects troughout painting in the cycle Lorem Ipsum he started in [...]

Margot Burident prepares a thesis in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Art History at the Picardie Jules Verne University. She lives and works in Amiens.
This young woman puts in question the notion of autoportrait as well in painting as in photography. Her research gathers around the tradition and the mutation of the autoportrait [...]

Olivier Delporte’s work can be basically conceptualized thanks to two media wich will finally gather into one through the devices he uses. The first media is video, and the second one is performance, through both of them the body shall become an artistic instrument in a defined area, becoming a portion of a digital space.
He [...]

Trying to understand the current criteria used to rate artistic creation can lead us to a simple question (which implies much more than it seems at a first glance): Has contemporary art become classical?
Vis à vis des Genres is an exhibition that aims to highlight the process of conception of genres in today’s art.
Four [...]

Hello there,
Here you will find some news and posts about the creation of the exhibition Vis-à-vis des Genres, which will take place in Amiens (France) around the middle of november 2008. Other categories shall soon be added about the artists and their works, and about our artistic association called Tétrapilectomie…
See you soon.