"Rencontre" 1/8 (2020) Digital Arts by Renée Brachet

From pigments to pixels.

My wanderings in the Algerian desert and in West Africa for 23 years prompted me to question.
What is magic in an image? The transcription of reality? An interpretation of reality? The testimony of an "aesthetic" moment? The excitement of this moment in the service of "graphic poetry"? But what is the magic in a sequence of images effectively organized on music?
Time is integrated into the image in the service of a "choreography" that tells!
I quickly felt trapped in this link to realism, so I decided to create my own images underpinned by my only imagination and my memories.

Back in France in 1998, I abandoned my traditional brushes and migrated to new technologies. Self-taught in this area, I only started exhibiting my digital paintings in 2003, focusing on my department of residence: Fréjus, Saint Raphael, Draguignan, Roquebrune sur Argens, Cannes, St Tropez and in a group exhibition in Osaka in 2007.
For ten years, I supervised image processing workshops in clubs where I particularly appreciated the exchange of points of view with people involved, open to the prior processing of their images.
I took the opportunity to reveal to them the fabulous creative potential, for the painter, of Photoshop. I mainly use it, but for ideological reasons, my preferences are oriented towards Open Source software like Krita, Blender, etc. more suited to my graphic and kinetic concerns.

I also work on audio-visual creations with the texts and songs of a songwriter friend who gives me his rights

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1954
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists