바스켄 막디키안(Vasken Mardikian)

1975년 벨기에 출생

벨기에에서 활동

작가 프로필 이미지

소개말

In my paintings, I try to reproduce the textures and visual effects specific to other media, such as photography, television and print. In contrast to photo-realist approaches, I attempt to focus on the medium rather than on the image itself, so my work could be considered as a form of “hyper-realism” of the medium. Through these abstract images, I explore visual effects like magnification, fuzziness, pixellization and color saturation.

Within a society marked by television imagery and digital processes, in a world that everything is simulation, manipulation, illusion or fake I have been Interested to create a painting which doesn’t look at all a hand made painting, a “fake original” image.
Trough painting a recreate another medium, photography, illusion of a digital print. We get inside of a micro pictural world inside the painting witch is simulation of a manipulated video projection image, something looks technological, but is not, is a simple un illusion.

It also a traditional processes, the act to put paint on a surface. My work is also about this processes, the action of painting because it is still a witness of the desire to ”paint in spite of everything”