Fire symbolizes the domination of man over nature (a reference to Prometheus) and the possible danger of technology for man’s survival.
Is technology salvation or destruction?

The line between these two extremes is very thin, but nevertheless, mankind’s future lies in the answer of this question.

Installation vue

Advertisements – graphic artworks produced by Stéphan BARRON to announce the installation and exhibited in the WORTLAUT exhibition at Galerie Schuppenhauer and then at the Bochum Museum.

These works caught the eye of the exhibition’s curator, Friedemann Malsch, because they were the first digital works to exist in a single copy. In a way, it’s the original seed from which NFT was born a few years later!

In fact, they were made with a needle printer; the strange language on these sheets is the system language of the Amiga (the only low-end personal computer that artists could buy in the 1980s). Loading the system language caused the computer to crash, so only one copy of the sheet could be printed, making it a unique computer product.

Einladung / Invitation for the exhibition Wortlaut Fluxus and Visual Poetry curated by Friedemann Malsch.

Schuppenhauer Galerie – Köln 1989 ; Museum Bochum, 1989 ;  Galerie Spala, Prag, 1990