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29 avril 2010
posted by dbouffard - 05/01/10

MARTIN BROUILLETTE - LA CHAMBRE GRISE AT GALERIE DOMINIQUE BOUFFARD
By Malakoteron on « Beauty Is Ugliness At Rest »
(Blog: Review, primarily, though not exclusively, of new Canadian art)

 
«Martin Brouillette's latest series of paintings investigate voyeurism and the cult of perfect beauty in one of its most contemporary guises - internet porn. To do this, he uses the ephemeral and random images that make up so much of the online world and combines them with an inter-textual layer from Thomas Mann's Death In Venice.

The combination is both thematic and, at times, literal, as names from Mann's text are scrawled across some of the paintings. Mann's turn of the century meditation on the 'voluptuousness of doom' is given a contemporary reinvention. The contaminated sewer world of Venice is replaced by the viral world of the internet superhighway. An intellectual's decline into myopia is transformed into a mindless lurch into anonymity. The decay of Nineteenth Century civilization is replaced by the Twenty First Century's nihilistic decadence. Of course, in both instances, one can accord a predatory tourism, the first in respect to the history of nations and the other to the history of individuals, as the source of this decay. ....»


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