#david garneau

Ça pixel'art ! La technique est la superposition des motifs tourbillonnants réalisés avec des points de ton clair sur une peinture aux contours simplifiés et une palette chaude. Un hommage et une réappropriation du pointillisme. Un clin d'oeil aux images de nos écrans créées à partir de milliers pixels. Le saviez-vous ? : pixel = picture element.

“Art is a strange supplement. It is not essential to our survival but is integral to our humanity. It is the ornament, the flourish, the extra effort, the unpredictable addition, the unneces­sary necessity. Good art is not always good design. Unrestrained by craft, art can so embellish an ordinary function as to make it useless; render a vessel, for instance, so beautiful that we feel the need to protect it from its intended service. Art is the site of intolerable research, the laboratory of odd ideas, of sensual and intuitive study, and of production that exceeds the boundaries of conventional disciplines, protocols and imaginaries. Art is a display of surplus, of skill, ingenuity, knowledge, discipline, time, labour and wealth. It embroiders status, disguises corruption and celebrates power. But art is also the stage where other surplus finds expression. It can be a way for the marginalized, refused and repressed to return.”

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David Garneau, Métis-Mountie, 2002.

From David Garneau's "Cowboys and Indians (and Metis?)" series. "David Garneau is a Métis artist who was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta...Garneau’s artistic practice focuses on painting, drawing and contemporary theory, and deals mainly with masculinity, representation and the negotiation of white, Aboriginal and Métis identities." [via]

Edmonton, by David Garneau (the great, great-grandson of Laurent Garneau), 2008

From the Cowboys and Indians (and Métis?) show.