Ida Tursic was born on 1974 in Belgrade, Serbia and Wilfried Mille was born on 1974 in Boulogne-sur-mer, France. Since their meeting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and the beginning of their work as an artist duo in 2000, Tursic and Mille dwell on images which they transmute in painting.
Taken from magazines, art books, movies and the internet, their work reimagines the history and genre of painting as it exists in the 21st century. Their large canvases represent scenes of glamor, pornography, luxury, landscapes, fashion, geometrical elements and death. All the subjects portrayed are pointed out by an overwhelming load of image production circulating through present media. The huge paintings deal with the manipulation, re-utilization and disappearance of images.
Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille live and work in Mazamet, France.
The artist duo has had solo and group exhibitions in many institutions over the years including Centre Pompidou (France), Monnaie de Paris (France), Espace d’art contemporain (France), Kunst in Weidingen (Germany), Fondation d’enterprise Ricard (France), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dôle (France), Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon (France), Musée de l’abbaye Sainte-Croix (France), MuMo (le Musée Mobile) (France), Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna (Italy), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (France) and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France).