Valéry Grancher 1998 - Today. Biography Biographie Valéry Grancher is represented by / Valéry Grancher est représenté par: - Lincart Gallery, 1632 C Market Street. San Francisco, CA 94102-5910 USA Tel:(415)-503-1981 "Webdrawings" by Stefano Chiodi Roma, 2005 "I use the Internet too much. I’m on it all the time, non-stop, when I work, when I’m tired of working, when I’m looking for an airline ticket to leave on vacation, when I need to calm my nerves. In short, I’m a pretty typical victim, but I don’t suffer too much from it. So when I see the screens drawn by Valéry Grancher, this surprising catalogue of inexhaustible flux of images and words, catalogue by definition impossible and absolutely provisional, I ask myself if he has ever felt, as I have, this sensation of losing footing, of sometimes being too quickly absorbed in a whirlpool of forms, of a message completely understandable, of course, but at bottom enigmatic and vaguely menacing. Because that is precisely my feeling when I flip through this surprising book, Internet Drawings. Pencil drawings, or markers maybe, white paper, material. Without mentioning the stopping of time. Does he take himself for the last painter? Or does he simply need a memory device? Strange diary, collage by chance, calculation ? And what choice is meant? Yes, the choice is perhaps the key. Let’s look closer then: museums, foundations, artists, galleries… in short, the art world. A phenomenology sub speciem internetis ? That is to say he’s not talking to us about about graphics, or interfaces or interactivity, happily, but about a fugitive, ungraspable, subtle object ? Art as a substance that resists transformations, as a procedure rather than a technique? What appears in these pages is the diagram of a secret voyage in which the stages are not defined: happy meetings? Deceptions? Misadventures? We are left in uncertainty. Clearly these traces, hesitant, that keep all the hand’s clumsiness, are not here to remind us of all the many-colored charms of web sites, but rather to let us perceive their ephemeral reality, this “human” dimension, mortal and disordered, that continues to inhabit us." STEFANO CHIODI, Rome. Feeds: 1- "Google painting", solo show, Lincart Gallery 1632 C Market Street. San Francisco, CA 94102-5910 USA Tel:(415)-503-1981. Opening reception on January 10 2008 form 6.00 to 9.00 pm. Exhibition from January 10 to February 16 2008. "Google painting", exposition personnelle, Lincart Gallery 1632 C Market Street. San Francisco, CA 94102-5910 USA Tel:(415)-503-1981. Vernissage le 10 Janvier 2008 de 18.00 à 21.00. Exposition du 10 Janvier au 16 Février 2008. 2- You may see the picture of the "Google paintings" installation done for "La nuit blanche de Paris 2006 on October 7 2006 at the Mairie du 4e arrondissement: Click here Vous pouvez voir les images de l'installation "Google paintings" faite pour "La nuit blanche de Paris 2006 (7 Octobre), Mairie du 4e arrondissement: Cliquez ici 3- You may order the new book published by Onestarpress "Webdrawings" ! Click here ! Vous devriez commander le dernier ouvrage publié par Onestarpress "webdrawings" ! Cliquez ici ! 4- You may order a multiple "google painting" ! Click here ! Vous devriez commander une édition de la "Google painting" ! Cliquez ici !