ARTISTS
New Realities
Muriel Gu茅pin Gallery is pleased to present 鈥淣ew Realities鈥�, a group show featuring three young artists all using different mediums but all starting their artistic process with existing images. Appropriation has become an everyday phenomenon in our society with the arousal of what has sometimes been called 鈥� The Remix Generation鈥� which has taken form in all types of the art. Juan Arana draws portraits of characters found in old images dating from as early as the 18th century often juxtaposing them with well-know cartoon characters to play with the notion of time and meld imagination with reality. Laurent Ch茅h猫re merges those two worlds as well by creating imaginary houses floating in the sky, pasting hundreds of images of old buildings he photographed in Paris, France into Photoshop. Joshua Smith is also inspired by images of urban architecture. He reproduces miniature sculptures of existing houses, playing with scale and literally shrinking the whole world into the palm of ones鈥� hand.
Muriel Gu茅pin Gallery is pleased to present 鈥淣ew Realities鈥�, a group show featuring three young artists all using different mediums but all starting their artistic process with existing images. Appropriation has become an everyday phenomenon in our society with the arousal of what has sometimes been called 鈥� The Remix Generation鈥� which has taken form in all types of the art. Juan Arana draws portraits of characters found in old images dating from as early as the 18th century often juxtaposing them with well-know cartoon characters to play with the notion of time and meld imagination with reality. Laurent Ch茅h猫re merges those two worlds as well by creating imaginary houses floating in the sky, pasting hundreds of images of old buildings he photographed in Paris, France into Photoshop. Joshua Smith is also inspired by images of urban architecture. He reproduces miniature sculptures of existing houses, playing with scale and literally shrinking the whole world into the palm of ones鈥� hand.
Artists on show
