Press Release

The use of images from the media, especially involving violence, in artistic practices
with Laurent Gervereau and Olivier Blanckart
Debate (3/6)
Tuesday 30 March 2004

Laurent Gervereau
is President of the Institut des Images and Honorary President of the International Association of Museums of History. His many books include Un siècle de manipulations par l’image (Somogy, 2000), Voir,comprendre, analyser les images (La Découverte, 2001), Ces images qui changent le monde (Seuil 2003), Le Monde des images (with Cabu) and Comprendre les images pour ne pas se faire manipuler (Editions Laffont). He also curated the exhibition on photographs of the Algerian war of independence at the Hôtel de Sully, Paris (Photographier la guerre d’Algérie, to 18 April 2004).

Olivier Blanckart
was born in 1959. He lives and works in Paris. Ranging across a variety of supports, he frequenty uses photographs from the media. Whether in the sculptures made with adhesive tape or his photographs inspired by emblematic figures of the past or present (series of portraits of “Myself as…” Yves Klein, Elton John, etc.), he points up the standardised nature of images used in the media, which he contrasts with the singularity of the artwork.