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Almine Rech

Tursic & Mille

"Tursic & Mille’s painting does not concern itself with subject matter or content; what it aspires to before anything else is to be an object. This object is, in fact, Painting." Eric Troncy, ‘Tursic & Mille : Decade’, Les Presses du réel, 2011

Since they began collaborating as a duo in 2000, painters Tursic & Mille have been interrogating the contemporary overload of images and their relation with pictorial representation, questioning their reproduction, circulation and disappearance. Taken out of movies, magazines, media and the enormous repertory of data available on the internet, this boundless source of anonymous, preexisting material is used up and transformed into paintings. With their landscapes, erotica, portraits and abstract compositions, Tursic & Mille blur pre-existing hierarchies between all kinds of images, aiming to go forward with the history and genre of painting as it exists in the 21st century.

Tursic & Mille have been nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019.

Selected artworks

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      La proposition Embarrassante, 2023

    Tursic & Mille La proposition Embarrassante, 2023

    Oil on canvas
    200 x 250 x 4.5 cm
    78 1/2 x 98 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Clair de Lune, 2023

    Tursic & Mille Clair de Lune, 2023

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 160 x 4 cm
    75 x 63 x 1 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      King Charles after Louis Leopold Boily, 2023

    Tursic & Mille King Charles after Louis Leopold Boily, 2023

    Oil and gold leaf on wood
    36 x 28.5 cm
    14 x 11 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Bichon Bichon, 2023

    Tursic & Mille Bichon Bichon, 2023

    Oil and gold leaf on wood
    36 x 28.5 cm
    14 x 11 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Avant l'orage, 2023

    Tursic & Mille Avant l'orage, 2023

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 160 cm
    75 x 63 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Condordance du Toucher et de la Vue D'après René Descartes et James John Hill, 2023

    Tursic & Mille Condordance du Toucher et de la Vue D'après René Descartes et James John Hill, 2023

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 160 x 5 cm
    75 x 63 x 2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Le désespoir du peintre, 2023

    Tursic & Mille Le désespoir du peintre, 2023

    Oil on canvas
    190 x 160 cm
    75 x 63 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Twilight, 2022

    Tursic & Mille Twilight, 2022

    Oil on wood
    122 x 153 x 4 cm
    48 1/2 x 60 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      The dog with pink clouds, 2022

    Tursic & Mille The dog with pink clouds, 2022

    Oil on wood
    77 x 66 x 4 cm
    30 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      The wait, 2022

    Tursic & Mille The wait, 2022

    Oil on wood
    61 x 51 x 4 cm
    24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Jeune fille vidant le contenu, 2021

    Tursic & Mille Jeune fille vidant le contenu, 2021

    Oil on wood
    152 x 122 x 5 cm
    60 x 48 1/2 x 2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      La demoiselle à l'oie, 2021

    Tursic & Mille La demoiselle à l'oie, 2021

    Oil on canvas
    160 x 130 cm
    63 x 51 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      Two People contemplating the Disaster, 2021

    Tursic & Mille Two People contemplating the Disaster, 2021

    Oil on wood
    50 x 42 cm
    19 1/2 x 16 1/2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      The flat world, 2021

    Tursic & Mille The flat world, 2021

    Oil on wood
    122 x 95 x 5 cm
    48 1/8 x 37 3/8 x 2 in

  • Tursic & Mille,                                      The quiet night, 2021

    Tursic & Mille The quiet night, 2021

    Oil on wood (with phosphorescent pigments)
    122 x 153 x 5 cm
    48 1/8 x 60 1/4 x 2 in

Videos

  • Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille | Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019 | Exposition | Centre Pompidou

Selected press