Nicolas Boillot

France

Nicolas Boillot is a digital artist who lives and works in Berlin. For the past ten years, he has been designing specific computer programs capable of analysing the flow of images (personal films, author videos, television programs, etc.) and capturing the moving parts of them. The artist then uses them in the manner of a stencil, superimposing and interpreting in a colorful and graphic way these proposals of forms. After that, he composes a new image by accumulation of visual creations and variation of choices. This collage work, called "remix", produces a video work in constant motion, sometimes critical, sometimes purely experimental. Following the «affichistes» of the 1960s, by laceration, by accumulation, he makes several temporalities cohabit in his works.


In 2003, Nicolas obtained the Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique (Art option) at the École Supérieure d'Art in Aix-en-Provence. In 2016 he devoted a thesis to his artistic practice and became Doctor of Art at the Audiovisual Research Laboratory at the University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès. His work is constantly evolving and has been the subject of several residencies (Chile, Spain, France, Quebec) and individual and collective exhibitions in many countries (Germany, England, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Spain, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Japan, Quebec, Switzerland, USA, Taiwan, Czech Republic).


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Big Bang - Vertical

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Big Bang confronts us with a circular temporality, where different fragments are piled up from a video stream, itself derived from a documentary on space, and then brought together in the same instant by a compositional process. Nicolas applies these fragments to a color palette that also evolves over time. Here he seeks to explore the notions of framing and out of scope. 

With an optical illusion, it blurs the edges of this animated composition. To do this, he copies the central part of the composition. This reproduced part is then «grafted» in a fragmented way on the four sides of the image. By this principle, he "dissolves" the out-of-scope, "surpasses" the rectangular format inherited from the videos he uses as sources. Presented several times side by side, a continuity of pixels will emerge according to a grid layout and without spacing. This repetition will reveal a complex and moving motif, without visible delimitation. This pattern will allow me to create a perfect loop without beginning or end. Big Bang allows the artist to explore a «pictorial spatio-temporality».
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collage

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portrait

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01:00

year

2015

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