Spotlight on Matthieu Bourel....Info and work

....[His] collages combine physical cut-and-paste techniques with digital editing. The artist describes his work as “Data-ism,” a pun on the avant-garde Dada movement that wielded montage and collage as a form of political critique...source

...[He] combines traditional cut-and-paste collage techniques with digital editing, digital animation, and even sound design to create a body of work that blurs the borders between illustration, graphic design and art installation...source

...'To make images became more and more essential to me, and I can’t stop making them since. Collage as a way of life. Cut and paste. To use samples in music, to mix different periods of time in films, colours and forms in painting, to use my own identity and personal influences as material to work with, to search for new ways....'source

....'A photo from the past carries more emotions than a contemporary one. It’s not just the person or scene portrayed but all the landscape that arises from it...'source

....'I like to watch every picture as the point of departure for a story. Various durations, gathered in one. to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed. Sometimes further to a decision. Mostly random...'source

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