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Paul-Émile RiouxTransition_A2 - Elements Connection2025
2025
$14,500
£11,135.38
€12,761
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Archival photo print under museum acrylic.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 in.
Depth: 1/4 in.
Edition of 5
Montreal-based artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux has been creating virtual worlds for many years that lie at the crossroads of abstraction and figuration. His works invite viewers to question their perceptions, oscillating between the reflection of a tangible reality and a purely imaginary construct.
Through a distinctive approach that combines advanced digital technologies with photographic expertise, Rioux explores the worlds he discovers and extracts striking images from them:
"The virtual digital spaces I explore allow me to propose a reflection on our perception of reality. We live in a world where representations of the real are often deceptive. By provoking both fascination and vertigo, perhaps I can spark a reflection on how we inhabit territories and manage the resources that shape our world."
Rioux’s creative process also relies on the deliberate orchestration of algorithmic anomalies within modeling software. These irregularities give rise to spaces that appear photographic but are entirely abstract. The artist never uses photography as the foundation for his creations.
"The spaces I create do not correspond to any specific vision," he explains. "They are virtual slices (or framings) of digitally transforming material.
I do not draw these places; I implement possibilities."
Digital creation allows him to explore notions of reality and fiction, questioning how memories are constructed and how we assign meaning to imagined visual constructs.
Through this singular approach, where aesthetic exploration meets critical analysis, Paul-Émile Rioux is recognized as one of the most innovative artists in digital creation, capable of maintaining a delicate balance between the fascination evoked by these virtual worlds and the profound questioning of our certainties in an ever-changing world.
In this new "Transition" series, RIOUX explores the subtle boundaries between the tangible and the evanescent. The works reveal a refined mastery of transitional spaces, where perception melts into sophisticated visual orchestration.
Light becomes a vector of transcendence. The compositions alternate between skies of rosy hues dissolving into turquoise horizons, creating suspended moments between day and night, and bolder explorations where deep blues and water greens intertwine in a chromatic dance of rare intensity.
RIOUX constructs these spaces with mathematical precision, allowing digital sequences to create complex structures while maintaining subtle control over the emergence of forms. The horizons, his signature element, become lines of force that structure space, creating a visual language beyond pictorial conventions.
The abstract landscapes presented reveal only a fraction of the visual universe built by the artist. This singular approach, developed well before the advent of generative AI, relies on a profound mastery of digital and photographic tools.
These works, in continuity with the Turquoise and Renaissance collections, pursue a broader reflection on the very nature of perception. Each digital painting becomes a field of investigation where time seems to dilate, inviting the viewer into a meditative experience that goes beyond mere aesthetic contemplation. The pictorial space transforms into a place of resonance where light becomes matter and abstraction reveals its spiritual dimension.
- Creator:Paul-Émile Rioux (1953, Canadian)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 0.25 in (6.35 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU13615740042
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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