Dominique Emard

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Dominique Emard lives and works in Orleans, he teaches drawing and painting. His "seen from the sky" canvases are developed from photographs from observation satellites or web-cams. He has always made a particular interest in geography, maps and atlas. It is therefore very natural that he collects these images on the web, where they develop and swarm by billions. They serve him to sketch the structure of his paintings and give its overall tone. Then his work consists in interpreting these photographs freely, digesting their coldness and inhumanity and highlighting their evidence and their paradoxes. Through the thickness of the paint and the color of color, it attributes a materiality they do not have. "I also like to play with their scale, which allows me to implement small and large formats, to confront empty and full, and to advance on the nebulous border; figuration/abstraction." His choice is generally made on cities or in the footsteps of our human civilization. But he does not select them at random. "The chosen image must have a graphic interest and that it is linked directly or indirectly to a personal emotion originating a text, a film, music, memory, a" geographic sensation "or a context geopolitical. Painting is an archaic means of extending the life of a digital, super-accredited, super-actual “modern” image. It slows it down, pampers it, bouches it, and in the end, it brings it to silence and to immobility. Painting is one with humanity. " Dominique Emard

Selected Works

New York - park avenue 211128 by Dominique Emard

New York - park avenue 211128

Paintings - 60x60 cm
A bigger city - 191010 by Dominique Emard

A bigger city - 191010

Paintings - 100x100 cm
A bigger city - 190909 by Dominique Emard

A bigger city - 190909

Paintings - 100x100 cm
Tarmac - 120807 by Dominique Emard

Tarmac - 120807

Paintings - 100x100 cm
Archéologie 221230 by Dominique Emard

Archéologie 221230

Paintings - 54x73 cm
Archéologie 221208 by Dominique Emard

Archéologie 221208

Paintings - 60x60 cm
Villa Toscana 220421 by Dominique Emard

Villa Toscana 220421

Paintings - 40x40 cm
Villa California 220415 by Dominique Emard

Villa California 220415

Paintings - 40x40 cm
Archéologie 221104 by Dominique Emard

Archéologie 221104

Paintings - 65x92 cm
Parthénon d'Athènes 221008 by Dominique Emard

Parthénon d'Athènes 221008

Paintings - 60x60 cm

Acropole d'Athènes 220720

Paintings - 60x60 cm

Acropole d'Athènes - 220707

Paintings - 60x60 cm

Delphes 220212

Paintings - 100x100 cm

Acropole d'athènes 210917

Paintings - 100x100 cm

Sw Paris Beaubourg 160329

Paintings - 100x100 cm

Sw New York 160603

Paintings - 100x100 cm

Sw New York 160701

Paintings - 100x100 cm

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