Or how new technologies are changing the field of art...
Pierre Restany, Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac, Patrick Imbard - Flammarion 2000
"The computer tool is a fabulous dictionary of shapes and colours that explodes the image, modifies and regenerates it. Its possibilities are unlimited and in perpetual transformation. »
As early as the early 1980s, Miguel Chevalier sensed the immense upheavals offered by new technologies in the field of art as well as in our relationship to the world.
While appropriating the tool, he asks the question of its meaning and keeps as his objective "to convey the ideas of [his] time with the means of [his] time". At the centre of his creation is the world of communication, flows, networks ("Transit", "Interconnections", "Periphery"...), which are at the heart of our daily life. With a certain lyricism and a constant concern for the public, Miguel Chevalier creates most of his works in situ and for this reason he invests the most diverse territories, the port of Fukuoka in Japan, Mirabel airport in Montreal or the sites of the Olympic Games.
This abundantly illustrated and comprehensive monograph contains articles by Pierre Restany and Laurence Bertrand Dorléac as well as interviews with Patrick Imbard organized around the various issues that run through his work.
Miguel Chevalier (born in 1959 in Mexico) is a French artist of digital and virtual art. He is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. In 1984, he stayed at the Villa Kujoyama in Japan. He is represented in Paris by the Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery and the Numeriscausa Gallery.
He has had numerous exhibitions and installations in France and abroad such as Ultra Natures presented at the Paraiso metro station in São Paulo (Brazil) as part of the exhibition Emoçao Art.ficial 4.0 at the Centro Itau Cultural (June to September 2008)1 and Pixels liquides at the Festival des Bains Numériques in Enghien-les-Bains, France (June 2008).