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Art Subject: Weather
Formoso River, Goias, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara
Formoso River, Goias, Brazil, 2008
70 x 105 cm
27.5 x 41 inches
Edition of 10
100 x 150cm
40 x 60 inches
Edition of 10
120 x 180 cm
47 x 71 inches
Edition of 10
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara
Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2018
70 x 105 cm
27.5 x 41 inches
Edition of 10
100 x 150cm
40 x 60 inches
Edition of 10
120 x 180 c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Tropical Storm II, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Tropical Storm II, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
47 x 71 inches - Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in São Paulo, Sé...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tropical Storm IV, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Tropical Storm IV, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
47 x 71 inches - Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in São Paulo, Sé...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Veredas de Buritis II, Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara
Veredas de Buritis II, Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2001
Black and White Photography
Landscape
Terra Brasil
70 x 105 cm
27.5 x 41 inc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Tropical Storm I, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Tropical Storm, Sunset Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
47 x 71 inches - Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie 7, China Lansdcape
Located in New York City, NY
Alexandre Manuel
Zhangjiajie 7, China Landscape, 2019
40 x 32 inches
Edition of 5
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Celeste 1, China
Located in New York City, NY
Celeste 1, China, 2017
20 x 20 inches
Edition of 7
40x40 inches
Edition of 5
60x60 inches
Edition of 3
Ask us for framing options.
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Celeste 2, China
Located in New York City, NY
Celeste 2, China, 2017
20 x 20 inches
Edition of 7
40x40 inches
Edition of 5
60x60 inches
Edition of 3
Ask us for framing options.
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie 4, China
Located in New York City, NY
Zhangjiajie 4, China, 2019
20 x 20 inches
Edition of 7
40x40 inches
Edition of 5
60x60 inches
Edition of 3
Ask us for framing options.
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie 1, China
Located in New York City, NY
Zhangjiajie 1, China, 2019
60 x 60 inches
Edition of 3
Archival Pigment Print
Framed
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Landscape V, Vietnam
Located in New York City, NY
Landscape 5, Vietnam
40 x 40 inches
Edition of 5
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Celeste 2, China
Located in New York City, NY
Zhangjiajie 4, China
60 x 60 inches
Edition of 3
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie 5, China
Located in New York City, NY
Zhangjiajie 5, China, 2018
Series: CHINA
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryta paper
Mounted and Framed
All available sizes and editions:
20" x 20" editions of 7
40" x 40" edi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Yangshou I, China Landscape
Located in New York City, NY
Yangshou I, China
60 x 60 inches
Edition of 3
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie 2, China
Located in New York City, NY
Zhangjiajie 2, China, 2018
40 x 40 inches
Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Framed
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New Zealand Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 3
Signature Label on verso, framed.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Photography of English Countryside, Lake District - English Landscape series
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a limited edition fine art photography of the beautiful English countryside featuring the Lake District, capturing the light and quiet tranquility of the landscape.
The ph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wireframe, Japan
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 5
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
San Fransico Skyline with One Big Cloud
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Signed and dated and numbered lower left recto. Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unframed
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 197...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
20x25" Framed Photograph - The Walker II (sold framed)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a lyrical poetic piece featuring a man in solitude and contemplation. The image is deliberately grainy and moody. Photographed in Argentina, through the forest at dawn.
Draw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Kafue National Park, Zambia, 2010 - Sebastião Salgado (Black and White)
Located in London, GB
Kafue National Park, Zambia, 2010
Sebastião Salgado
Stamped with photographer's copyright blind stamp
Signed, inscribed on reverse
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Undertaking projects of vast temporal and geographic scope, Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) is one of the most celebrated photojournalists working today. Whilst inescapably memorable for their beauty, Salgado’s photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Adansonia Grandidieri, Madagascar, 2010 - Sebastião Salgado (Black and White)
Located in London, GB
Adansonia Grandidieri, Madagascar, 2010
Sebastião Salgado
Stamped with photographer's copyright blind stamp
Signed, inscribed on reverse
Silver gelat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Holding Light In Darkness #9
Located in Los Angeles, CA
THE COLOR OF WATER
Lake Michigan blue sits at the pastel confluence of green, grey and cyan on the nearby shoreline. In truth, the color of the lake is as transitory as Chicago weather. The shade of blue is widely determined by the reflection of the sky above and the organic material and sediment carried below.
I recently learned that invasive mussel species have slowly transformed the lake from green to bluer over the past two decades. I often return to the water’s edge to document the color of a given day.
Susan Isaacson...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Original Photography by Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart.
Edition: I/V
Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm
This picture has been selected for the prestigious Street hotography Magazine Cover (F...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
North Wall of Fjord, Milford Sound, New Zealand - Contemporary Photography
By Jem Southam
Located in London, GB
North Wall of Fjord, Milford Sound, New Zealand - Contemporary Photography
Signed and inscribed with title and date on reverse
Archival pigment print
35....
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inawashiro Lake, Japan
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pentti Sammallahti
Inawashiro Lake, Japan
2005
Gelatin Silver print
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Francisco Skyline Blue Sky and One Big Cloud, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
One big puffy cloud hovers over the skyline of San Francisco and is counterbalanced by a big puffy area of fog. The fine art photograph is Signed and dated and numbered lower left re...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
African Buffalo Herd in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2007 - Sebastião Salgado
Located in London, GB
African Buffalo Herd in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 2007
Sebastião Salgado
Stamped with photographer's copyright blind stamp
Signed, inscribed on reve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Red Bark 1
By Chris Leidy
Located in Fairfield, CT
This piece is unframed.
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
SIMON PROCTER Portrait Karl Lagerfeld, Starrett Lehigh Building offices 2006 NYC
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited edition of 20. Mounted on DIASEC ( plexi mounting )
Karl Lagerfeld on the rooftop , NY overwiew.
Shot for a Harpers Bazaar Feature.Starrett-Lehigh 601 W 26th St, New York, NY...
Category
Early 2000s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Rookery Study #5
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 3 out of 25.
Archival pigment print
Paper size: 17 x 22 in., Image size: 16 x 20 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil on print verso
Series: Ghostlight
Keith C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Icy Branches
Located in PARIS, FR
Here is a fairly typical, but no less enchanting, spectacle of the cold season along the slopes of the Jura massif. Hour after hour, frost patiently accumulated on the vegetation sti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Land Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Bend under the frost
Located in PARIS, FR
On the Jura ridges, a thick shell of frost envelops the trees exposed to the elements. When the pact of negative temperatures and stubborn fog continues, the icy deposit sometimes ov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Land Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Two giants face to face
Located in PARIS, FR
August 4, 2017 was a very unstable day in Arizona, and particularly in the Grand Canyon sector where, after a rather overcast start to the morning, the sky quickly cleared to give wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Land Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Pink Clouds
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Framing options are available.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She received degrees from Georgetown University and the Corcoran College of Art. Sarah Hadley was named one of the “jeunes talents” by Le Monde in 2014. She has had solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Loyola Museum of Art, Richard Levy Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Gem, Washington
Located in Denton, TX
Ed of 3
Archival pigment print
Image size: 44 x 66 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered.
Series: Standing Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign For Woman’s Suf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kennebago Lake
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Looking for Answers
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series Story Lines
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Gondola in Venice
Located in PARIS, FR
Gondolas in Venice during winter
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
A Storm is Building, Odgen, Utah
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
La Tour Eiffel derrière les toits de Paris
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Clouds
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This image is printed in an edition of 3, but comes in smaller sizes.
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pooltrees
Located in New York, NY
Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 5/6 on verso.
In the series ‘Weights & Measures’ (2003) Andrew George turns...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Lambda
76
Located in New York, NY
Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 2/2 on verso.
In the series ‘Weights & Measures’ (2003) Andrew George turns...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Lambda
Climbing Mountains
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Climbing Mountains" is part of Sarah Hadley's Story Lines series. In Story Lines, Hadley creates surreal intimate cinematic narratives which blur the lines between reality and ficti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Earth, Lamb County
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Keith Carter is an American photographer who is known for his dreamlike black and white photographs of the figure, animals, and mea...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen, 1995, Cyanotype, Still Life Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen presents two sunflowers, slightly dried and wilted, bathed in a deep saturated blue.
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen is a 16 x 12 inch cyanotype print. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Huangshan Mountains, Study 30, Anhui, China
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, negative date, print date and numbered.
Sepia toned gelatin silver print
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful and alluring. His...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Extranuageux sur Marne
Located in PARIS, FR
Image 25 x 38 cm sur papier 40 x 50 cm.
"Stormchasing in France. (French original title : "extranuageux sur Marne") It is quite harder to capture thunderstorms in France than in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Clouds 18
Located in Miami, FL
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 cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 15
Located in Miami, FL
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 cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 13
Located in Miami, FL
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 cutti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 11
Located in Miami, FL
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.
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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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 2
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Clouds 9
Located in Miami, FL
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 museum acrylic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
`Kauzan Invert`, Tokyo-from the series Okurimono japan cherryblossom tree nature
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono
66 cm. x 200 cm. Edition 6 (+2 ap)
100 cm. x 200 cm. Edition 3 (+1ap) Euro 8,000
Pigment Print
Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanes...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
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