Hurteau philippe

The work of philippe Hurteau uses directly the images of the media to feed its work also he has a place in this series d artists His work confronts more directly with the images and with the contemporary pictures, until the break concretized by the series Television ( 1995 ), where the picture(board) is directly likened to the surface of a screen.

Through the television figure of TV programs (newspaper TV, scenes(stages) of the weather report, the games his paint tempts a pictorial translation of the television.

According to Hurteau the television amounts not only to the media of television, but also means a new report(relationship) between the human figure and the physical and mental space leads(infers) by the contemporary universe. The numeric paintings of the series Channel(Canal) R (1999) are seizures of screens of film X subjected to the encoding. This reflection widens then in the new visibilities produced by the video or the Internet networks. Among the first ones(nights) in France, this search(research) announces the interest of an increasing number of painters for the media images and the images in movement (philosopher Stéphanie Katz speaking on this matter about " painters of the screen ").

His painting could define itself as a subjective anthropology of the contemporary individual today, evolving in a standardized, globalized imaginary space, politicized, subjected to the violence of the powers and the technology.

Philippe Hurteau is a painter who works on the numeric images He confronts his paint(painting) in the present time by means of the contemporary images, in particular that of screen (TV, computer, cams) screen shots, the images found on Internet are used as materials, worked on computer ( the numeric(digital) sketches) and registered then in the pictorial material (by a process which is sometimes inspired by the encoding)

Through various series developed at the same time, he tries to formulate an image of the contemporary condition of the individual, the interiority of which is subjected more and more violently in request of the system and the media industry. Showing the tension between body and technology, Philippe Hurteau speaks about his paint(painting) as one about tragic impressionism of the digital age or about a virtual space where the figure comes to get lost