HOMMAGE À FABIO RIETI — PARIS (2019)

Intergenerational dialogue between early urban mosaic practices and contemporary pixel-based systems.

EXHIBITIONS & FEATURES

Developed in collaboration with French artist Fabio Rieti, the exhibition presented at Jour et Nuit Culture in Saint-Michel established a dialogue between two generations of mosaic-based urban image construction.

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

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Fabio Rieti / PixelArt

Recognized for introducing mosaic interventions into Parisian public space during the 1960s, Rieti’s practice anticipated forms of pixelation decades before the emergence of digital culture and street art as contemporary categories.

For PixelArt, the exhibition represented both a symbolic return to Paris — where his artistic direction was initially shaped between 2009 and 2011 — and the closing of a conceptual cycle through a direct exchange with one of the historical precursors of urban mosaic

The pixel as occupation

PIXEL-BASED SYSTEMS INVESTIGATING IMAGE PERSISTENCE, SYMBOLIC INVOCATION AND THE MATERIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY.