What do images do to painting, what does painting do to images? Two examples: Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque

Author: Loire Cédric  

Publisher: Intellect Books

ISSN: 1758-9185

Source: Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol.12, Iss.1, 2013-03, pp. : 87-100

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Abstract

The works of two contemporary painters, Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque, though different, are both attached to the tableau-form, but neither in an exclusive relationship nor in a nostalgic way. They maintain a constant and determining relation in the photographic image, its technical reproducibility and its distribution en masse, its ubiquity increased by its digital dematerialization and circulation.