Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille survey at Carré d'Art questions painting in image-saturated age
The Carré d'Art – Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes, France, has unveiled a significant exhibition featuring the collaborative work of Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, which has evolved over two decades. This showcase challenges the role of painting in an image-saturated environment. Instead of upholding the integrity of the medium, their creations reveal it through excess, conflict, and dissonance. Incorporating elements from landscapes, portraits, still lifes, abstraction, advertising, and academic sources, the artists craft paintings rich with layers, interruptions, and unexpected elements. Their images are sampled, shifted, overlaid, and occasionally modified to the point of near invisibility, generating ongoing tensions between abstraction and figuration, as well as recognition and the erosion of reference points.
Key facts
- Carré d'Art – Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes is hosting the exhibition.
- The exhibition is a major survey of Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille.
- Their collaborative practice spans over twenty years.
- The work questions painting's conditions in an image-saturated world.
- They do not seek to preserve painting or assert its purity.
- They use landscape, portrait, still life, abstraction, advertising, and scholarly references.
- Paintings feature multiple strata, interruptions, accidents, and parasitic gestures.
- Images are sampled, displaced, superimposed, and sometimes altered to near disappearance.
Entities
Artists
- Ida Tursic
- Wilfried Mille
Institutions
- Carré d'Art – Museum of Contemporary Art
Locations
- Nîmes
- France