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Paul-Émile RiouxClouds Mosaic2024
2024
About the Item
Archival pigment print under a 1" thick diamond acrylic block.
Dimensions: 9 15 in x 15 in.
Depth: 1 in.
Space in between each panel: 1.5 in.
Total dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
With Artist certificate of authenticity.
Dimensions:
Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)
Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Paul-Émile Rioux is a Montreal-based artist and photographer who has been recognized as a pioneer in digital art. His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology and his expertise in photography have enabled him to develop virtual matrices from which he extracts his images. Rioux's work explores the intersection of abstraction and the figurative, inviting viewers to question whether what they see is a reflection of reality or imagination.
According to White Hot Magazine, Rioux's unique approach makes him one of the most innovative artists in digital creations. He is one of the few creative minds able to blend aesthetic research and critical distance with such keenness. His creations offer a dystopian view of the urban territory, challenging our attitudes towards the environment and the future.
Rioux does not aim to meet expectations of what digital art "should" look like, but rather seeks to play with our notions of what is real and what is not. He explores how we remember and how we infer meaning into imaginary visual constructs. Through his work, Rioux invites us to reflect on the relationship between reality and imagination, and to question our perceptions of the world around us.
In summary, Paul-Émile Rioux's innovative approach to digital art challenges our perceptions of reality and invites us to reflect on the relationship between the real and the imagined. His work offers a unique perspective on the intersection of abstraction and the figurative, and challenges our attitudes towards the environment and the future.
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 displays 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 Cloud, 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 created in that collection.
Cloud 9 is a half set (introducing the first 9 created) presented in a square mosaic.
This set will be available in a limited edition of 20.
Each archival pigment print is produced under the supervision of the artist.
The prints are mounted under a single piece of 1" thick diamond acrylic block.
Every acrylic block is 100% handcrafted in USA.
All sides of the acrylic are crystal clear diamond polished.
The back is bounded on a white material with an aluminum/cleat hang system.
The acrylic block floats 1/2" from the wall with a highly secure french cleat hang system.
- Creator:Paul-Émile Rioux (1953, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU13614740862
Paul-Émile Rioux
Paul-Émile Rioux creates evocative digital art that pulls the viewer into an uncanny world and provides a haunting reflection of reality. His virtual color photography and landscape photography pieces reveal their synthesized nature only upon close inspection.
Rioux is based in Montréal, Canada, where he studied animation at Concordia University. In the early 1990s, he established a career in photography with a focus on urban environments. At the same time, he was developing an interest in 3D software. Eventually, the virtual world overtook the real one as his main passion.
Rioux combines his photography with cutting-edge technology to create the virtual matrices from which his images are born. He eschews more popular image manipulation technologies, such as Photoshop, in favor of numerous digital techniques and 3D software. Each technology is like a different paintbrush that helps Rioux generate the final image, which is the result of algorithmic possibilities captured in a cut of virtual space and time.
Rioux’s new media work offers a tense glimpse of a dystopic world populated by infinite skyscrapers. It encourages one to pause and reflect on the future and the environment.
Whitehot Magazine advises the viewer to “think of one of Rioux’s works as the template for a truly engulfing experience.” Though the worlds he brings to life exist only digitally, they represent a meeting of reality and imagination.
Rioux’s work was exhibited at the 2021 Cube Art Fair in New York City.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Paul-Émile Rioux’s digital art.
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