Musée des Confluences, a contemporary Wunderkammer
30 January 2015
28 January 2016
Miguel Chevalier is a digital artist born in Mexico, and resident of Paris. His spectacular and important projects include special effects in the caves of calcareous stone in Baux de Provence, the installation in the courtyard of Puglia’s Castel del Monte, and the recent digital networks in the Cambridge Cathedral. He works tirelessly, traveling the world or in his studio/laboratory in Ivry, Paris, designing new “special effects” that suggest figurative and humanistic ideas of digital art, revealing a computer’s ability to strike an emotional cord.
Generated using algorithms, his representations are distant relatives to large-scale a frescoes (see Andrea Mantegna) that alter the concept of the location, thanks to their daring perspectives. His tendency to find poetic expressions in natural themes, such as floral figures that, thanks to the fluidity of their stems, come to life with a vital breath that makes the effects even more surprising. Even his fridge in his home has a screen where polychrome flowers oscillate like dahlias in full bloom.
WHERE: 1 impasse Prudhon 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Miguel Chevalier is a digital artist born in Mexico, and resident of Paris. His spectacular and important projects include special effects in the caves of calcareous stone in Baux de Provence, the installation in the courtyard of Puglia’s Castel del Monte, and the recent digital networks in the Cambridge Cathedral. He works tirelessly, traveling the world or in his studio/laboratory in Ivry, Paris, designing new “special effects” that suggest figurative and humanistic ideas of digital art, revealing a computer’s ability to strike an emotional cord. Generated using algorithms, his representations are distant relatives to large-scale a frescoes (see Andrea Mantegna) that alter the concept of the location, thanks to their daring perspectives. His tendency to find poetic expressions in natural themes, such as floral figures that, thanks to the fluidity of their stems, come to life with a vital breath that makes the effects even more surprising. Even his fridge in his home has a screen where polychrome flowers oscillate like dahlias in full bloom.
The Moodboarders is a glance into the design world, which, in all of its facets, captures the extraordinary even within the routine. It is a measure of the times. It is an antenna sensitive enough to pick-up on budding trends, emerging talents and neglected aesthetics. Instead of essays, we use brief tales to tune into the rhythm of our world. We travelled for a year without stopping, and seeing as the memory of this journey has not faded, we have chosen to edit a printed copy. We eliminated anything episodic, ephemeral or fading, maintaining a variety of articles that flow, without losing the element of surprise, the events caught taking place, and the creations having just bloomed.