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About Philippe Rivens
Philippe RIVENS (alias Pixeliums) was born in 1961 in the city of Toulouse, France. He discovered photography during his studies. Internship in the industry, he illustrated his written reports by shooting devices he had designed. The pictorial aesthetic complemented his technical texts, better than the drawings he had done.
This need for aesthetics was a compensation to engineer studies where (in 1980), only the justification of the functionality of the shape was required, without education or consideration for design.
Many years later, he purchased a digital camera in order to record family’s holidays and children’s growth. He discovered the ease offered by the digital processing chain which opened up new creative possibilities.
Fascinated by the expression of duality and contrasts he expresses them by shooting subjects with colors in opposition or complementary funds. In a certain extend, he endorses the quote of Alexander Dumas: "I love these contrasts, I search, I love all that is strange; and I find life very gentle thus." In "Memoires d’une aveugle." Chapter X.
In 2015/2016, Philippe Rivens started to answer one of his own artistic questions:
"How to create pictures beyond our automation and offering new visual experience in a world where billions of people, exploring the possibilities offered by the current photographic space, have revealed all its possibilities?"
Artist Statement
"As I was thinking about the question above, I told to myself that if the current photographic space was probably fully explored, it could exist unexplored other color spaces which could give a different aesthetic to my pictures. So, I began to create my own process which will allows me to transfer and reveal the classical digital photographs in a new color space. This process is completely independent of the notorious photo editing software's...
Because I couldn't find a category for my photographic artwork, I named it "NAND2Art". Where "NAND" sums up the process and "2Art" means its tiny contribution to the Photography Art evolution...
I enjoy exploring this new color space and push creativity to a new level. Curiously after each digital shooting I must wait to know the final surprising result... like in the old photographic times!!
NAND2Art quickly became popular in local exhibitions. From these different sets of colors and tones borne a new harmony that escapes to the subjective reflexes of the mind. The final result is always surprising as visual perception in this new color space contrasts with all the associations colors / objects (or scenes) that visitors have made through their daily life."
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