Video: Stephan Balleux

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Stephan Balleux is the current artist in residence at Wardlow studios in Fitzroy. He is Belgian artist, based in Berlin. His finely executed paintings, very flat and smooth in themselves, feature detailed representations of smears, globs and whorls of thickly applied paint. His work has been compared to Glenn Brown and Gerhard Richter. However Balleux goes further than the pop and historical references of Brown. As he explains in this interview, while he continues and extends Richter's explorations of the processes of painting, his work demonstrates more faith in the reality and power of images and the possibility for a painting to be "alive".

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• Title: Stephan Balleux
• Artist: Stephan Balleux
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• Posted March 4, 2009

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Artist: Stephan Balleux

Stephan Balleux is a belgian artist based in Berlin, Germany. His work is dealing with position of painting in our digital age.The various techniques (drawing, painting, sculpture, video and special effects) constitute as many fields of investigation. From these experiences emerges an image, in constant change, erasing any temporality. Like a virus, the pictorial texture propagates itself and its digitalization becomes an eminently contemporary process.

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