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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2
March 2006
ŅINTERATIVE
ABSRTRACTION – E PRINT PAINTINGSÓ NEW WORKS BY CHRISTIAN DE CAMBIAIRE
May
9 through July 1, 2006
Public
reception for the artist, Saturday, May 20 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Christian de Cambiaire presents his latest works in a long series of
radical artistic structures he calls "visual propositions". The work results from the application
of a unique computer program, Explorer, following combinatorial algorithms
designed by the artist. Each work
is completely unique and the electronic file is deleted once the piece is
finished.
The
artist finds his legitimacy once the program runs its course. Evaluating the experimental result he
either rejects or accepts the work globally, with no modification. This does
not eliminate the hand of the artist, but displaces it from one creative
position to another. Freed
from production the artist can devote himself to the assessment of the
profusion of what has been produced.
To
remain true to the logic of computer's operating mode, and to preserve the
spontaneity and vivaciousness that it brings about, the image has gone directly
from its luminous birth on the computer screen to its definitive material state
(digital ink jet prints on plastic sheets), without any intervention at any
stage whatsoever of the "hand of the artist".
ABOUT
CHRISTIAN DE CAMBIAIRE:
Christian
lives and works in Toulouse France where he began a career in Political
Science. He turned to artistic creation after the revelation, in the fifties,
of American abstraction and "Art Informel" which influenced his first
non-representational works. Yet, he gradually aimed to free himself of this
first influence Around 1960, in order to "structurer l'informel"
(Michel Tapiˇ), he used repetitive procedures by superimposing calligraphic
grids and started to move away from a certain subjectivism in painting, using
the spray gun. At that time he took part in the activities of the Lettrist
Group.
From
1968 forward his work was supported by the art critic Michel Tapi¸¸ who was
then interested in the concept of "set of signs" and "abstract
spaces". Tapi¸¸ organized
exhibitions of his work in Paris and in Italy. In Paris he also took part in the creation of the "V
art" group and its exhibitions.
In Toulouse he co-founded the "Peinture-Itˇration" group
(1975-1979) whose purpose was to revisit the conceptual basis of abstraction
that seemed by then to have exhausted some of its potentials.
In
1978 he created pictorial reliefs taking up the third dimension, already
perceptible in his superimpositions. Starting in 1983 he turned to more radical
solutions by substituting the concept of algorithmic distribution to that of
composition, which is of heuristic nature. In the former, the part played by the artist shifts from the
spontaneous aesthetic reactions to the use of systems that generate the work of
art. Since 1990 he has used a
personal computer program corresponding to his own thematic approach.
Newmark Gallery San Francisco is located at 251
Post Street, Suite 412 in the Union Square area of San Francisco. We are
committed to representing the highest quality contemporary art from the Bay
Area and Europe. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 am - 6 pm and by
appointment. Please view our website at www.newmarkgallery.com for more
information and upcoming events.