What do images do to painting, what does painting do to images? Two examples: Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque

Cette contribution a également été présentée dans le cadre du même projet (The Tableau Project), lors du colloque "Tableau/Dispositif/Apparatus", Londres, Tate Modern, 28 et 29 octobre 2011.International audienceThe works of two contemporary painters, Robert Suermondt and Thierry Costesèque, though different, are both attached to the tableau-form, but neither in an exclusive relationship nor in a nostalgic way. They maintain a constant and determining relation in the photographic image, its technical reproducibility and its distribution en masse, its ubiquity increased by its digital dematerialization and circulation