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Les œuvres de Wade Guyton, artiste américain né dans l’Indiana en 1972, explorent la façon dont sont produites les images aujourd’hui, à l’heure de l’impression numérique et de la reproductibilité a priori infinie des œuvres d’art. L’artiste a pour ce faire abandonné les modes de productions classiques que sont la peinture ou le dessin : il utilise de grandes imprimantes à jet d’encre dans lesquelles il passe et repasse ses toiles de lin, de telle sorte que les erreurs et les accidents (superpositions, taches d’encre, coulures, mauvais alignement des têtes d’impression, etc.) engendrent des œuvres à chaque fois uniques. Sans titre est issue d’une série de travaux récents dans lesquels apparait sur la surface, en surimpression, l’empreinte du sol en bois de l’atelier new-yorkais de l’artiste. L’irruption de cet élément biographique – comme une sorte de portrait métonymique de l’artiste – au sein d'œuvres générées initialement exclusivement par ordinateur crée une mise abyme du travail de Wade Guyton, interrogeant in fine le statut de l’artiste lui-même à l’ère du numérique.
The works of artist Wade Guyton, born in Indiana in 1972, explore how images are produced today in the era of digital printing with the seemingly endless possibilities for reproducing works of art. To do this, Guyton has abandoned conventional methods like painting and drawing. Instead, he repeatedly passes his linen canvases through large inkjet printers in such a way that any errors or accidents, such as overlapping, ink stains, drips and bad printhead alignment, create a unique work of art every time. Untitled is from a series of recent works in which the imprint of the wooden floor in Guyton’s studio in New York is superimposed. The suddenness of this biographic element - like a sort of metonymic portrait of the artist - at the heart of works that at first were generated exclusively by computer, creates a mise en abyme of Guyton’s works, ultimately questioning the artist’s status in the digital era.
The works of artist Wade Guyton, born in Indiana in 1972, explore how images are produced today in the era of digital printing with the seemingly endless possibilities for reproducing works of art. To do this, Guyton has abandoned conventional methods like painting and drawing. Instead, he repeatedly passes his linen canvases through large inkjet printers in such a way that any errors or accidents, such as overlapping, ink stains, drips and bad printhead alignment, create a unique work of art every time. Untitled is from a series of recent works in which the imprint of the wooden floor in Guyton’s studio in New York is superimposed. The suddenness of this biographic element - like a sort of metonymic portrait of the artist - at the heart of works that at first were generated exclusively by computer, creates a mise en abyme of Guyton’s works, ultimately questioning the artist’s status in the digital era.