Temperance Street
1993
Temperance Street
1993
Robin Collyer has focused on urban photography since 1992. His pictures are familiar at first glance, but emanate a feeling of oddity. This is because the artist has digitally removed every text in the environments photographed. By eliminating all meaning and function from these mass communication systems (panels, posters and newspapers), the artist condemns the visual pollution that victimises his contemporaries, and demonstrates the supremacy of signs and writing in the urban space. Through a minimalist gesture, he thus transforms books, boxes and kiosks into sculptures, echoing his initial calling as a visual artist.
Domain | Photo |
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Techniques | Epreuve chromogène |
Dimensions | 69 x 79,5 x 3 cm |
Acquisition | Donation de Caisse des dépôts et consignations, 2006 |
Inventory no. | AM 2006-246 |
Detailed description
Artist |
Robin Collyer
(1949, Royaume-Uni) |
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Main title | Temperance Street |
Creation date | 1993 |
Domain | Photo |
Description | Photographie couleur retouchée par ordinateur |
Techniques | Epreuve chromogène |
Dimensions | 69 x 79,5 x 3 cm |
Printing | 2/5 |
Acquisition | Donation de Caisse des dépôts et consignations, 2006 |
Collection area | Cabinet de la photographie |
Inventory no. | AM 2006-246 |
Bibliography
Voir la notice sur le portail de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky
Les peintres de la vie moderne : Donation - Collection photographique de la Caisse des Dépôts : Centre Pompidou, Galerie Sud, du 27 septembre au 27 novembre 2006 - Paris : Editions du Centre Pompidou 2006 (Reprod. p. 68) . N° isbn 2-84426-316-X
Voir la notice sur le portail de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky
Collection Photographies : Une histoire de la photographie à travers les collections du Centre Pompidou, Musée national d''art moderne (Reprod. en coul. n° 324 p. 411, cat. p. 458) . N° isbn 978-2-844 26-348-3
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