What do images do to painting, what does painting do to images? Two examples: Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque

ABSTRACT

The works of two contemporary painters, Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque, though different, are both attached to the tableau-form, but neither in an exclusive relationship nor in a nostalgic way. They maintain a constant and determining relation in the photographic image, its technical reproducibility and its distribution en masse, its ubiquity increased by its digital dematerialization and circulation.

KEYWORDS:

• montage
• heterogeneity
• desynchronized temporalities
• entropy
• trick screens
• tactile qualities