BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

94 2014 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST Modem Europe Spring-Summer 2015 Cover by MIGUEL CHEVALIER Miguel Chevalier (Mexico City, 1959) is one of the pioneers of digital and virtual contemporary art. In his experimental, complex and multidisciplinary work, he examines in a poetic and metaphorical way, the question of the link existing between nature and artifice coexisting and enriching each other today. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier is focused exclusively on computers as an arti- stic means of expression. In 1980, he received a diploma from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and later graduated in fine art and arche- ology at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Université de Paris Saint Charles and Université de Paris La Sorbonne. Chevalier was awarded the Lavoisier scholarship by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and studied at the Pratt Institute, New York. In 1994, he was artist in residence at the Kujoyama Villa, Kyoto, Japan. “ Fractal Flowers” are gigantic flowers of different sizes, colours and shapes. This work leans on a generative principle, creating autonomous virtual seeds, growing, opening out and fading. It reveals stylized flowers, through an extreme geometry in its shapes, at the confines of different worlds: mineral, vegetable, animal and robotic. Flammarion published a monograph of his works from 1985 to 2000, accompanied by a CD-Rom made with Christine Buci-Glucksmann of his video and virtual reality installations. Miguel Chevalier has numerous exhibitions in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries of the world.