Nicolas Baier

Réminiscence, 2012

© Nicolas Baier • Photo: courtesy of the artist

Nicolas Baier, Réminiscence, © Nicolas Baier • Photo: courtesy of the artist
Artist
Nicolas Baier
Title
Réminiscence
Dimensions and medium
Inkjet print on aluminum, A.P., 150.7 × 240.3 cm
Origin
Purchase, with the support of the National Bank Private Wealth 1859, Collectors Symposium 2013
Artwork description
Réminiscence, by Nicolas Baier, is a fully computer-generated image of an endless cloudscape created by powerful image processing software. The artist’s initial goal was to recreate an image of the sky over the metropolitan region of Montréal at the moment when life on Earth first began. The impossibility of this exercise led Baier on a series of calculations that reproduced the sky as it would have appeared more than 10,000 years ago. As the title indicates, the work “references a constructed state, a memory that has never been engraved in the human mind,” and explores how imagination, desire and idealization intervene in the formation of history and memory.

See Also

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George Legrady, Double Talk, 1982 Double Talk, 1982, Tinted gelatin silver print, 3/10.
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Palais Garnier Paris XXXI, 2005, Chromogenic print, 3/6.
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El Primer Dia, 2003, 1 colour Inkjet print and 4 black and white Inkjet prints.
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Blindsight, 2005, Digital chromogenic print, 2/5.
Isabelle Hayeur, Blindsight, 2005 Blindsight, 2005, Digital chromogenic print, 2/5.
Cathexis No. 48 (de la série « Cathexis Series », 1982), 1982, printed of 1993, Chromogenic print and decals.
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Debout sur le rivage, 1984, 9 silver gelatin prints.
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Self Portrait with Skeleton, 2003, Cibachrome print, 4/5.
Marina Abramovic, Self Portrait with Skeleton, 2003 Self Portrait with Skeleton, 2003, Cibachrome print, 4/5.
Irises, after Van Gogh (from Pictures of Magazines), 2004, Chromogenic print, 5/6.
Vik Muniz, Irises, after Van Gogh (from Pictures of Magazines), 2004 Irises, after Van Gogh (from Pictures of Magazines), 2004, Chromogenic print, 5/6.
Exposure #44, Barmsee, Bavaria, 08.18.06, 4:37 p.m., 2006, Inkjet print, 5/5.
Barbara Probst, Exposure #44, Barmsee, Bavaria, 08.18.06, 4:37 p.m., 2006 Exposure #44, Barmsee, Bavaria, 08.18.06, 4:37 p.m., 2006, Inkjet print, 5/5.
Shipbreaking No. 29, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2001, printed of 2002, Chromogenic print, 2/10.
Edward Burtynsky, Shipbreaking No. 29, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2001, printed of 2002 Shipbreaking No. 29, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2001, printed of 2002, Chromogenic print, 2/10.
Spa, 2000, Chromogenic print, 3/4.
Lynne Cohen, Spa, 2000 Spa, 2000, Chromogenic print, 3/4.
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