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Archival photo print under acrylic glass. Dimensions: 48 x 48 in. Depth: 1/4 in. Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his expertise in photography cast him as pioneer in digital art and allow him to develop virtual matrix from which he extracts his images. In his works he explores a universe that lies at the crossroad of abstraction and the figurative, inviting the viewer to determine if what he sees is a reflection of reality or imagination. Through is truly unique approach RIOUX is one of the most innovative artists in digital creations and one of the few creative minds able to blend with such keenness aesthetics research and critical distance. Whether they translate into a Dantesque urbanity or the infinite horizon of a turquoise ocean, the urban territory reflected by his creations offers a dystopian view of the world, challenging our attitude towards the environment and the future. From the onset, RIOUX has no intention of matching IRL expectations of what digital art 'should' look like, but strives to play with our notions of what's real, what's not, how we remember, and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs. --- RIOUX started the Cloud project in 2022. Paul-Emile Rioux’s series Cloud, like his other work, is a kind of aesthetic thought experiment. Each square image is bisected symmetrically, or nearly symmetrically, by a tidy horizon. The upper half display forms that appear as clouds, the bottom as an underwater seascape, yet at the same time mimics the cloudlike formations of above. Formally these works reference hard-edged abstraction, minimalism and abstract expressionism, though juxtaposed with a sort of Instagram lifestyle sensibility. When shown as a gridded series, they recall the Instagram account @insta_repeat which curates gridded typologies of nearly identical influencer photos – for instance sunsets on a beach, or campfires with hiking boot clad feet visible in the foreground, transforming images, which individually are meant to signify the good life, into symbols of stifling homogeneity, cynically trying to capitalize on mass-produced sensations. Unlike past movements in abstract or minimal art, however, Rioux is not striving to create self-contained objects, but windows into deeper currents that churn in the dark spaces where culture, technology and the subconscious flow together. Rioux’s digital works are not specifically images, but notes, ways of thinking. They connect to a larger discourse. With Clouds, Rioux thinks aloud about what is hidden and what is revealed in our relationships to technology and nature. It is a meditation on “the cloud,” which, like real clouds, seem immaterial, but in fact are physical and have a material impact on the world. Rioux considers the juxtaposition between weight and weightlessness – the apparent weightlessness of virtual reality, against the mass, the inescapability of the material world. Technology promises a world of lightness, connectivity and the bounty of limitless growth, or if it cannot quite muster that illusion, at least the offer of escape into a simulated universe of carnivalesque distraction shepherding us away from the environmental catastrophe our economic system inflicts on the earth. In this series Rioux asks us to reflect on what the clouds hide. There are 18 pieces in the Cloud collection. Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist. The print is mounted under a single piece of 1/4"/ 6 mm gallery...

"Unfolding Heart" Nude Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin Medium: Archival Giclee Print Available sizes: Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch Edition of 7 30" x 30" in...

Brooklyn Bridge Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The world famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York at sunset. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful ph...

'Curtain Call', 2017, Edition 3/7 plus 2 Artist Proof Based on a Polaroid, digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-228 Kirsten...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 21398. Not...

Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers waiting for the c...

Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stampe...

The female hardcore band BLOOD’s guitar at the eastern end of Bleecker St. where it drains into 315 Bowery at CBGB Artist: Drew Carolan Title: Guitar on Bleecker St Edition Detail...

Heidler and Heeps Vinyl Collection 'Press Conference Cobalt Blue'. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully ...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...

Crackle (Till Death do us Part) - 2016 40x40cm, Edition of 10. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 3612. Not mount...

'Snowmass Picnic' 1967: A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. Helicopter in the b...

The Dead of the Night (2020) Polaroid 600 Wakefulness and longing in the middle of the night. Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm Digital C-Print based on a on a Polaroid, not mounted. Si...

Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection 'LTD. ED. Vinyl Ochre Pink'. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesm...

Truth or Dare - 2017 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-2...

David Burdeny - Cheetah Profile (Africa) Archival Pigment Print Signature Label Ask us for framing options.

MILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain) A Perfect Mum #2 2012 Chromogenic print Image 51 x 51 cm (20 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.) Sheet 59 x 59 cm (23 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.) Edition of 10, plus 2 AP, Ed. no. 2/10 A fiercely original photographer, Miles Aldridge (*1964, Great Britain) is best known for the technicolor dream-like worlds he creates and the glamorous, beautiful women who inhabit them. Aldridge creates ultra-cinematic images, drawing inspiration from film directors such as David Lynch and Federico Fellini as well as the psychedelic graphic design of his father, Alan Aldridge...

172.01.12 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Dancing Rays of Light". This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. ...

Throughout her career, Geesaman photographed public parks and formal gardens in the United States and Europe, focusing on the intersection of nature and artifice in the cultivated la...

Last man standing - 2019, part of the series The crazy Adventures of David C. 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back an...

Dreams in Alpha (Shot 2016 on SX70 Film) This was partly inspired by the films of Jodorowsky, Lynch and the Tarot. It is about the manifestation of dreams and desires via the deser...

C-print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass

'Tales of Bitter Moon #25', Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018 digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating, hand signed & numbered by artist on the back. Please ...

Tree in the Plane (The Last Picture Show) - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label....

Nice Pool 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Gre...

Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the fir...

The Carlton Hotel 1955 - Estate Stamped A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estat...

Penthouse Pool 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Col...

Capote At Home 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958...

Palm Beach Street 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...

Having A Topping Time 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size E...

Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Es...

Lake Tahoe Ladies 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959 50 x 50" inches / 127 x 127 cm paper size ...

Jhelum River 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A luxury boat trip on the Jhelum River near Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. The boat is called the ‘HB Cutty Sark’. 20 x...

Carlton Hotel 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...

Digging For Clams 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, 1959. 20 x ...

Katharine Hepburn 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica...

Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 30 x 30" inches / 76...

Mara Lane At The Sands 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 19...

Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stampe...

Skiers At Verbier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Co...

Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settl...

Carriage Awaits 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Kenneth Appleton Ives with a horse and carriage outside her house in Bermuda, 1977. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size ...

My Toy 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver f...

Lady Hamilton 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lady Hamilton rests in the shade of a tree, in the company of a Kenyan tribe. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Sta...

Bahamanian Hotel 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...

French Polo Crowd 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950. 50 x 50" inches / 127 x 127 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection...

New England Skiing Essentials 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped...

Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stampe...

Pebble Beach Hunt 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Riders gather in the courtyard of Richard Collins’ House for the stirrup cup libation, before the start of the Pebble Beach Hunt ...

Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stampe...

Cortina D’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers at Cortina D’Ampezzo in Italy, 1962. (Photo by Slim Aarons) 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...

Two-Tone Dress 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman posing in a formal garden wearing a long, sleeveless, two-tone dress with a decorative bow at the waist, San Diego, Californ...

Hotel Olden 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...

French Stately Home 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du ...

French Leave Hotel 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the French Leave Hotel, owned by actor Craig Kelly, at Eleuthera in The Bahamas, 1960. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm p...

Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976 1...

Gloria Schiff 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. 20 x 20" inches / 51...

Ice Bar In Lech 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...

Lake Tahoe Couple 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Ne...