Stephan Balleux's body of work encompasses several mediums. He mainly works with paint but he also expands his work into mediums such as 3D animation and sculptures. The main idea behind his work is to take the characteristics of painting and transfer it into other media. For instance, he borrows from photography it's the quality of focus, blur and texture. His paintings are based on how the medium of painting has always been confronted to technical evolutions (optical with lenses, chemicals with photography, algorythmical with computers).
I'm not exactly sure why his subject matter is usually skulls or things covered in paint. I have thought that it could be about how the medium of painting is a decaying medium within the modern technological world. This would explain his ideas of painting being influenced by technological advances.
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