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Georges DUMAS

For the past ten years now, Georges Dumas has created "paintographs", a mixture of painting and photography. From photography, it retains the initial, essential, essential basis, of the work to come. He also keeps it, despite all the successive manipulations then carried out on the computer, the precision, the finesse and the plastic quality which distinguish it for sure from the nomician than hyperrealist painting. However, a paintography is not a photograph, it is a plastic construction that makes the look doubt, which raises the question of the nature of the image which is offered in the eyes of the spectators. What part of the work was captured by the objective, what part recreated by software work?
Layers, layers, stacks: despite its extreme readability, a paintography is a complex construction, based on a succession of screens. The fabric or the skin never appears to be bare, they are always covered by a material that makes as much screen as it is body with them. This material is itself hidden by squares which seem to be detached from it or to widen in it; By evoking pixels at the base of any digital image, these squares recall that this material is a lure, that it is virtual ...

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