.."Google Koons" Oil on canvas 100*81 cm. 2008
Valéry Grancher (born 1967 April 22 in Toulon, Var, France) is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream. He was the first artist to sell an Internet art piece to a contemporary art museum, The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in Paris in 1998. [1] In 1999, Grancher had a solo exhibit in a contemporary art museum in the United States, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. Editions du Seuil at the time, published a book about him which was sold at the Pacific Film Archive.
Grancher's art is a mix of conceptual and pop art references, sometimes with a sense of humor, sometimes appropriating the fads of the day.
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). 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 by creating a piece called 'Self Portrait.' [4] Google had become a buzz word in the art world, and numerous artitsts had previously plundered the subject to death.
In 2005 he exhibited at FIAC, the international art fair in Paris, 'the biggest Google paintings never (sic) produced.' (source wikipedia )
Check his official website:
Since 1995: http://www.valerygrancher.com
and since 1998: http://www.internetpainting.vg
and if you want to buy some art edition, follow this link:
http://www.nomemorybazaar.com
some art online project hereafter:
- http://http://www.ny-alesund-pole0.org 2007
- http://www.gpswandering.com 2006
- http://www.moneytogold.com 2006
- http://www.theshiwiarsproject.org 2005
- "Found Sculpture on Mars" 2005.
- http://www.samsara.name 2004
- lebureaudesdelations 2004
- "Google Alphabet" 2002
- "Google Numbers" 2002
Galleries:
- Lincart , San Francisco, USA
When my artworks are influencing Movie industry !!!
Check this: "Be kind movie" by Michel Gondry
I am making google painting since 2001 and internet paintings since 1998 !!!
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Exhibitions
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Since the begining of the 90's, the artist's main exhibitions and performances include:
Institutions:
- Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA (2008, 2007, 2001)
- Nuit Blanche, Paris, France (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
- New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA (2007)
- Espace d'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France (2007)
- Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Paris, France (performance, exposition personnelle) (2006, 2005)
- Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. (2006, 2005)
- "Super!" 1st Triennale of visual arts, fashion and design, Hasselt, Belgium (2005).
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2005, 2004, 2002)
- Istambul biennale,"web biennial" Contemporary Art Museum, Istamboule Turkey (2005; 2003)
- MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2004, 2005)
- Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (2004).
- Galleria de arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2004).
- Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, Paris, France.(2004)
- Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (2003)
- Turm Gallery, Hemstedt, Germany (2003)
- Biennale de Tirana National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (2003, 2001)
- MUHKA Contemporary Art Musuem, Anvwerp, Belgium (2003)
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2003, 2002)
- Artsonje Museum, Gyeong Ju, South Korea (2002)
- Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2002)
- New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, USA (2002)
- Israeli center for digital art, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israël (2001)
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2000)
- Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2000)
- Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (1999, 1998)
- Artspace of Australia, Sydney, Australia (1999, 1998)
- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (1998)
- Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998)
- Documenta X Kassel, Kassel, Germany (1997)
- Ars Electronica Center (residence), Linz, Austria (1997)
- CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (1996)
- ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1995)
- Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico, Mexico (1995)
- Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy (1995)
- Moderna Museet, Helsinki, Finland (1994)
- Contemporary Art Center, St Petersburg, Russia (1994)
- Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium (1994)
- Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France. (1993)
Private galleries :
- Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2008, 2007, 2006).
- Analix Forever Gallery (extra muros solo exhibit), Geneva, Switzerland. (2005)
- Galerie Incognito, Paris, France (2006, 2005, 2003, 2002).
- Sketch Gallery, Londres, Great Britain. (2005).
- http://www.artcart.de, Franckfort, Germany (2003, 2004)
- Galerie Rachlin Lemarié, Paris, France (2003).
- Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, USA (2001).
- Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2001).
- Deitch project, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, USA (2001).
- Galerie Gilbert Brownstown, Paris, France (2000).
- Galerie Chez Valentin , Paris, France. (2000).
- Tadu Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2000).
- Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2000).
- Galerie Glassbox, Paris, France. (1998).
- Galerie Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France (1996).
- Galerie Patrick Martin, Lyon, France (1995).
Public Collections:
- Cabinet des estampes du musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genêve, Switzerland. (Dos drawing)
- Rhizome artbase Net and media collection, New Museum - New York: USA
- http://www.computerfinearts.com: Net and media art collection - New York, USA: "Jerusalem".(website 2001
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Art Outsiders:Paris, France: "heart time / time heat".(website) 2001
- Fond National d'Art Contemporain, FNAC, Paris, France: "Reposoirs d'écran" (screensaver), "On Air" (VJ performance saved on DVD) 2000.
- Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA: "24h00" (website) 1999 - 2000
- La Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France: "Longitude 38" (site internet) 1999, "Self" (website) 1998
- Centre d'art contemporain de St Fons, St Fons, France: "Ulysse" (video) 1996
- ZKM Media museum (video), Karlsruhe, Allemagne: "Memory" (video) 1994 - 1995
- Carillo Gil Contemporary art museum, Mexico, Mexique: "Memory" (video) 1994, "U-Topos" ( installation Réalité Virtuelle) 1995
- Le nouveau musée, l'institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France: "Epridemik Remix" (video coproduced with Benoît Berry) 1993
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