BIO
Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has focused exclusively on computers as an artistic tool of expression. He quickly secured a spot in the international scene as a pioneer of virtual and digital art. Miguel Chevalier continues to be a trailblazer, and has proven himself one of the most significant artists on the contemporary scene. Miguel Chevalier’s oeuvre is experimental and multidisciplinary. His sources lie in the history of art and his work explores recurrent themes such as nature and artifice, flows and networks, virtual cities and ornate designs. In the 1980s, Miguel Chevalier began tackling the question of the hybrid and generative image. His work has been exhibited worldwide at K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai (2014), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000 – 1994 – 1988), Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (2014), Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico DF (2013), Mis (Museu da Imagem e do Som), Sao Paolo, Brasil (2010), Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2000), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan (1996), among others.
OBRA
Miguel Chevalier
Liquid Pixels, 2015
Generative and interactive virtual-reality installation
Courtesy: Ventana Contemporary Ibiza
Liquid Pixels pays homage to the painting of 1950’s, by Jackson Pollock, Sam Francis, Pierre Soulages, luis Feito … and enrolls in the continuity of “the action painting.” A skin of colorful pixels evolves autonomously. The spectator’s displacement creates a trail of color, which mixes itself and blends in with the “painting” before fading away slowly until a visitor’s next passage. Coming out of the canvas and merging with the screen, Miguel Chevalier finalizes the technique of “electronic dripping”, “a light painting ”, in perpetual movement, where the spectator becomes a digital brush with his/her own body.
