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.