RÉMY MOUTON
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
The Journey is the Destination
"In digital process art, every work is a program that invents images, animations, text, or music. With the help of controlled applications of coincidence, something new emerges from each execution," says Rémy Mouton about his work.
In Mouton's cosmos of wondrously complex digital appearances, fixed images are not actually planned. Everything is in motion, is constantly calculated anew, is alive. The full breadth of digital process art is best seen projected, where the computer projects billions of generated image variations onto a wall.
The images from the series Bilune – Hommage ŕ Picabia take us on an adventurous trip into a world of geometry with a reference to classic modernism. In his abstract works from around 1913, Francis Picabia attempted to approach the purity of form and color as nearly as possible, inspired by dance and metropolis life. Mouton's sources of inspiration lie elsewhere, primarily in the process. In "microscopic" program loops he uses that which he finds beautiful to raise it to a "global" level. He thus aims for results that relate to the expressions of abstract painting without, however, simply imitating painterly affects.
The program is the work, the process the journey, absolute diversity the goal. The images in LUMAS's edition can thus be understood as fixed film stills. They condense the moments of development of a living image, which follows surprisingly simple principles but emerges as complex patterns of the artist's colors and controls. The hope is for a balance between diversity and coherence. To better understand the work, we highly recommend a visit to Mouton's website for an entertaining introduction to his art:
remy.mouton.free.fr/gespraech
