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            The Invisible Generation is a site specific installation in which Pascal Dombis questions our relationship with images and how we see them today. Reading […]030 octobre 2020

The Invisible Generation, 2019-2020

            (…) In this post-era, the machines that we were accustomed to blame for the errors they used to make have now become quite faultless. […]09 octobre 2020

Hot Dark Future, 2018-2020

    For Pascal Dombis, ‘Crack’ constructs a major paradigm of our time. Through the multiple ongoing crises – political, financial, technological and ecological – we observe that the entire […]030 octobre 2019

Crackography, 2018-2019

            As from today, painting is dead. This sentence was pronounced nearly two centuries ago, in 1839, by the painter Paul Delaroche when he discovered […]016 octobre 2019

The Ends of Painting, 2018-2020

  Meta-Google confronts William Burroughs’ artistic heritage with Google, the symbol company of today’s soft global digital capitalism, in order to question our relationship with pictorial digital proliferation. His experimental […]022 janvier 2018

Meta-Google, 2015-2018

  Cinema created movement-images and images in movement. When used artistically, the new technologies create fractals, rhizomes and the movements of and in the image. We have gone from the […]017 janvier 2018

Post-Digital Mirror, 2006-2019

  The time of digital machines, regulated by their pure presence and their immediacy, is transforming our future, but also our past. To me, the real issue at stake is […]04 août 2017

Time Is…, 2017-2020

Blue is the most popular colour in Western society and it is semantically associated with light, sky, sea, rest, travel, vacation or dream… The words Blue, Bleu, Blu, Blau are […]020 avril 2017

Post-Digital Blue, 2013-2020

  The Limits of Control is based on a seminal text by William Burroughs on the same subject. For the artist, this text related to global surveillance concepts is a source […]018 avril 2017

Control, 2013-2020

  Meta-Aura is a series of algorithmic nieces in which I explore a simple rule: to stretch line from the four sides of a panel, as one would do with […]09 avril 2017

Meta-Aura, 2015-2017

    Color Screen of Death is a digital monochrome triptych that draws on traditional notions of painting and digital construction. It takes its title from the Blue Screen of Death […]07 avril 2017

Color Screens of Death, 2014-2018

    In this site specific installation, the walls are covered by a print composed by hundred thousand images from the Google image search on keyword Grid (or Grille in […]03 avril 2017

Mixed_Grill(e), 2014-2018

  SpamScape is based on the proliferation of words commonly used in the electronic mail spams. The spams are these advertising messages, not solicited and sent massively via emails. Interestingly […]019 septembre 2015

SpamScape, 2004-2020

  The algorithmically composed film installation The End(less) employs thousands of movie ending footage collected by the artist from all periods of cinema history: from the earliest black and white […]019 septembre 2015

The End(less), 2013-2020

  I enjoy working in public spaces. Interacting with the public, outside museums or galleries, is very exciting and a source of pleasure. There is a point when you need […]018 septembre 2015

Public Artwork, 2015-2020

  For Pascal Dombis, “crack” constructs a major paradigm of our time. Through the multiple ongoing crises – political, financial, technological and ecological – we observe that the entire Western […]018 septembre 2015

Crack, 2010-2016

  (…) It procures an intense experience of total immersion into thousands of texts about fashion. In lines dating from the last three centuries, isolated, superposed, big or little, legible […]017 septembre 2015

Text(e)~Fil(e)s, 2010-15

  That line, I have stretched it in every direction, and I have probed into many potentialities and variations… I learnt a lot from it because a line is not […]013 mars 2014

Irrational Geometrics, 2005-2016

  Since the Renaissance and Alberti in 1435, the grid has been used as the imaging technique which made it possible for painters to draw perspectives and to represent volume onto a […]02 décembre 2013

Grid, 2009-2017

  …) The internet is a decisive source of our perceptions of, and information about, a world in conflicts, ours. Pascal Dombis is one of those few artists who make […]012 octobre 2013

Eurasia (Google_Color), 2007-2013

  In those pieces inspired by a William Burroughs cut-up poem, Pascal Dombis used the words Right & Wrong in such a way that they ended up conjuring up Shamanic […]011 octobre 2013

RightRong, 2007-2020

Visual forms in Pascal Dombis’ work appear out of the excessive enforcement of autonomous and simple rules. They are not intentionally programmed. He lays down rules and lets them go […]027 novembre 2012

Xplosion, 2004-2012

  The video installation entitled What_Next ? is tackling ontological questions through answers provided by Internet search engines. These programmes, including the universally famous Google, are used to find simple […]025 novembre 2012

What_Next, 2009-2012

  Spin is a digital generative process based on the endless concentric proliferation of thousands of rotating circles which build up hypnotic structures. The more they spin, the more they […]023 novembre 2012

Spin, 2006-2012

  (…) For his solo exhibition at the Claudio Bottello Contemporary gallery in Torino, the artist found inspiration in Nietzsche’s stay in the piemontese capital. The famous sentence taken from […]017 novembre 2012

Gott_ist_Tot, 2011-2012

  Flux – according to me – is the result of the temporal transformation of an excess of data and information. And I use this flux to conjure up unstable and […]015 novembre 2012

Image-Flux, 2008-2013

  These works explore the patterns created by an excessive blinking of simple monochrome images. Starting with a very simple video loop (like a one second white screen followed by […]010 novembre 2012

Blink, 2005-2009

  This piece is composed from an algorithmic explosion of more than one million of line-curves that starts from the ground and covers the building façade. Confronting to the architecture, […]09 novembre 2012

Mikado_Xplosion, 2005-2009

  The simplicity of the basic data is important for Pascal Dombis. That is why he uses arbitrary geometrical or typographical signs – rather than representational elements or pictorial fragments […]05 novembre 2012

Hyper-Structures, 2002-2005

  (…) Thus, inflection is the very essence of bent and mutant forms, ellipsis, spirals and folds. Endlessly virtual, it only exists in the viewer’s eyes and in the many […]04 novembre 2012

Antisana, 2000-2008

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Rizong, 1998-1999

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