Print - Digital and Copier Art
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) in Montréal possesses several xerographic and digital prints from Philippe Boissonnet. In addition to the artists’ books he has produced collectively, such as 11 Electrographs (1985), Fractures d’images (1994) et Espaces interstitiels (1996), the collection holds an individual album of 16 xerographic transfers, Hypothèses errantes (1996) and a xerographic book entitled Main-chinalement (1984) as well as the book in a plexiglass box « #Wearetheworld 9Venise) » (2015-19). The BAnQ has also acquired many of his inkjet digital prints produced after 2005.
DEFLATING WORLD Series
2018 and 2019
Digital inkjet prints enhanced with pastels, white and colour pencils on Verona paper (Monotypes). 1/1.
The inflatable globe images used for these ink-jet prints were previously created on Canon Laser copiers during a research residency at the MIDE (Museo Internacional de Electrografia) in Cuenca in 1992. These ultrasound-looking images are reminding me a Child-Earth, and no more a Mother-Earth, seemingly fragile and in deflation. These flattening of the geopolitical globe corresponded to my strong impression of an emerging instability in the known world.
Deflating World #1, 2018, 103 x 103 cm (with frame) . Ink-jet print and white pencil on Verona paper). Edition 1/1
« Deflating World » #6, #7, #3 and #2 (63 x 63 cm with frame), 2018-2019 - White pencil drawing and ink-jet digital print on paper. 1/1)
REMAKE THE WORLD
1993
Canon Bubble Jet laser print on paper. Monotypes. Created in residence at OE Canon Ltd, Montréal
Large format: 122 x 43 cm each (mounted on foamcore)
Photo installation: 350 x 350 cm. Light boxes: 45 x 125 x 20 cm. Light and engraved glass. The 4 backlit images have been on Canon Bubble Jet copier by the direct « bougé» technic sur la vitre du copieur de grand format (pendant une résidence de recherche chez OE Inc. Canon, à Montréal).
RECONSTRUCTION Series
1993
Canon Bubble Jet laser print on paper. Monotypes. Created in residence at OE Canon Ltd, Montréal
« Et pourtant elle tourne », 1993. Canon Bubble-jet print on paper and mounted on plexiglas. 22x22 po (57 x 57 cm). éd. 1/1
« En reconstruction», 1993. Dimensions: 23,75 x 35,25 po. no framed (avec cadre noir en bois: 27,5 x 40 x 2,5 po.)
EN RECONSTRUCTION Series
2008
Series from Copy Art prints : Inkjet digital print on Hahnemühle paper
63 x 63 cm framed, ed. 3/3
Printed first on a bubble-jet copier (Canon) in 1993, directly from manipulating an inflatable earth globe
LA CONSCIENCE DES LIMITES (Terre-enfant)
1993-2008
Inkjet digital print on Hahnemühle paper (from a Copier Art project done at MIDE, Cuenca, Spain, 1993)
71 x 42,5 cm, ed. 7/7
Printed from a monotype printed on canon copier machine
Séries AURORA BOREALIS
1992
Monotypes printed on paper with Copy Art processus (Canon copier). 30 x 40 cm each. 1/1 (part of the MIDE art collection, Cuenca, Spain)
PINCEAU ÉLECTRONIQUE (Livre-boitier)
1986
Copy Art / Thermographic prints on Sharp CX5000 copier paper (BanQ Collection, Montreal)
« Pinceau électronique », 1986 (Copy-Art prints)
PALETTE ÉLECTRONIQUE
1990
Copy Art / 27 colour photocopies mounted on wood and acrylic paint on wall
250 x 170 x 2 cm
Collection of the Centre Copie-Art, Montréal, Qc
« ‘Palette électronique ‘, tel est le titre d’une oeuvre récente de Philippe Boissonnet qui donne forme concrète à la métaphore. Matériellement, il procède par repiquage d’un détail d’une image d’ordinateur modifiée au pastel, photocopié et agrandi sur la Canon laser. Des fragments sélectionnés sont montés sur du contreplaqué découpé en formes de palette de peintre .. » (M. Brunet-Weinmann, Vie des art 142, 1991)
MAIN-CHINALEMENT Series
1984
Copy Art / Xerographic prints on Ingres paper
Mainchinalement préhistorique Structure mainchinale
Empreinte mainchinale Wrap mainchinal
Aura Mainchinale
MAIN-CHINALEMENT (artist's book)
1984
Transfer and colour xerographic prints on Ingres paper. Mounted on St-Armand cotton paper.
35 x 220 cm (25 x 35 cm, folded book), ed. 6/6
Collection of the Banque d’oeuvres d’art du Canada
Collection of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Collection of the Centre Copie Art, Montréal, Qc