Valéry Grancher

Soljenitsyne: a XXth century paradox by Valéry Grancher (Oil on canvas 61x46 cm)

Valéry Grancher (born April 22, 1967 in Toulon, Var, France) is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.

Biography

Grancher's art is a mix of conceptual and pop art references, sometimes with a sense of humour, sometimes appropriating the fads of the day.

Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream. When Grancher started in the art world in 1995, he used emails in his art to show the processes and exchanges of the Internet community (email art) in physical installations like 'Alone' (1995).[1] In 1997 he used webcams in his project 'webscape', which dealt with the concept of "cybertime." [2] In 1998, Grancher experimented with pop art in his 'webpaintings' project.[3] In 2002, as Google began to dominate the Internet, he launched the "Search Art" collaborative project[4] by creating a piece called 'Self Portrait.' [5]

In 2005 he exhibited and sold at FIAC, the international art fair in Paris, 'the biggest Google paintings never (sic) produced.'

Exhibitions

Since the mid-1990s, Grancher has exhibited at many museums worldwide, including:

Permanent Collections

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Archived April 5, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "webscape" Archived August 29, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "webpaintings" project
  4. ↑ Archived September 5, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Self Portrait" Archived April 27, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.

References

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