24/09/2010
“Text(e)~Fil(e)s” de / by Pascal Dombis, installation @ Palais Royal, Paris
05/05/2010
generic, flux: Pascal Dombis @ “EXCES”, Seoul & “ARTHK10”, Hong Kong
image © Pascal Dombis, courtesy Galerie RX
EXCES / Seoul
May 13 - June 13, 2010
Tuesday - Saturday 10.00-19.00 / Sunday 10.00-18.00
Vernissage: Thursday May 13, 6 pm
Die Galerie
96-8 Chungdam-dong
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
EXCES / Daegu
May 14 - June 13, 2010
Monday - Saturday 10.00-19.00
Vernissage: Friday May 14, 6 pm
Seok Gallery
134-12 Bongsan-dong,
Joong-gu, Daegu, Korea
In collaboration with Galerie RX, Paris
ARTHK10 Hong Kong Art Fair
May 27 - May 30, 2010
Vernissage: Wenesday May 26, 6-9 pm
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center
Booth Number: L07
The Cat Street Gallery
222 Hollywood Road
Sheung-Wan, Hong Kong
www.thecatstreetgallery.com/splash/
liens / links:
site l’artiste / artist’s website: http://www.dombis.com/
09/03/2010
generic, flux: “Tou_R0se” de : by Pascal Dombis @ Traverse Video - 11-27.03.10, Toulouse

image © Pascal Dombis
courtesy Galerie RX
““Tou_R0se” est une installation vidéo, fruit d’un travail visuel et sémiotique. Elle confronte, au travers du réseau internet, les différents univers créés par le mot « Rose » et cela dans un contexte culturel et linguistique mondial.
Le Rose est une couleur riche en analogie, ambiguïté et symbole, et internet contient une grande variété d'images lui correspondant.
Par cette installation “Tou_R0se”, Pascal Dombis s'intéresse à l’accumulation excessive d'images ayant comme point commun une association au mot « Rose », leur confrontation entre les différents contextes culturels et la multitude de sens qui y sont liés ainsi que les différents espaces visuels créés et cela à Toulouse, la « ville rose » !”
(nos emphases / our emphasis)
source pdombis @ youtube
Exposition, du 11 au 27 Mars 2010
17, rue Bellegarde
31000 Toulouse - France
site de l’artiste / artist’s website: http://www.dombis.com/
Dans le cadre du Festival Traverse Vidéo
Traverse Video à Toulouse * 13ème édition "ça vaut la peine"
02/02/2010
generic, flux: "CensorZip" de / by Pascal Dombis, Hong-Kong 03.12.09 - 25.01.10

© Pascal Dombis, "CensorZip" (Red1), 2009
lenticulaire sur chassis, 90 x 120 cm, détail
courtesy Galerie RX

Pascal Dombis, "CensorZip" (Black1), 2009
lenticulaire sur chaissis, 90 x 120 cm, détail
courtesy Galerie RX
/ CensorZip explores the notion of censorship in China and built a sensational environment that deals with the legibility of images coming from censored web pages. The mass of ten thousands overlaid images is drawn from Google keyword search, search which is blocked in China but permitted outside, like in Hong Kong, where the piece was created.
Pascal Dombis - "CensorZip" - 2009
The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Site specific video installation / Installation vidéo in situ
Video software / Logiciel vidéo : Claude Micheli



© Pascal Dombis, "CensorZip" (Black1)
& "CensorZip" (Red1), 2009
lenticulaire sur chassis, 90 x 120 cm chaque
courtesy Galerie RX

...

Time spirals
Pascal DOMBIS
3 December – 24 January 2009
at The Cat Street Gallery
222 Hollywood Road
Sheung-Wan, Hong Kong
"The Cat Street Gallery is proud to present Time Spirals, the first solo show in Asia for renowned French artist Pascal Dombis. Featuring site-specific video installations, lenticular prints and large prints, the artist will transform the gallery space into a vivid optical display.
For more than 15 years, Dombis has been employing computers and algorithms in the creation of his dynamic art. The artist is known for excessively repeating one simple process until it becomes irrational and seemingly out of control. As a result there is a great paradox at the heart of Dombis’ work between orderly control of a simple rule and unpredictable results. The process is simultaneously random and mechanical, a machine creates the rule but the resulting artwork effectively takes on a life of its own.
A key work in the show is CensorZip, a media projection which explores the notion of censorship in China. The mass of overlaid images is drawn from a Google keyword search, a search which would be censored in China but permitted in Hong Kong The results are therefore random but respond to a specific line of enquiry made by
the artist. Spin is an abstract work which is cultivated from a proliferation of thousands of spinning circles. The hypnotic video display is based on a simple rule repeated an illogical number of times, causing something which was once independent and simple to appear increasingly chaotic and ominous.
Visually Dombis’ work is fascinating, the viewer is put in a position where by they cannot consume every image because of the vast number that are juxtaposed together, subsequently they find themselves drawn into his time spirals. It is this powerful aesthetic combined with an engaging conceptual approach that makes the
artist’s work so engaging."

site de l’artiste / artist’s website: http://www.dombis.com/
site de la galerie RX: http://www.galerierx.com/la_galerie/index.html
source images & vidéo: http://www.dombis.com/work/CensorZip.htm
&
http://www.dombis.com/work/TimeSpirals.htm
&
le pdf de l'expo. avec un superbe texte de C. Buci-Glucksman
"Time Spirals: from the ephemeral to the ephemeral":
http://www.dombis.com/work/TimeSpirals/Dombis_Timespirals_PR.pdf
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