Georges ROUSSE
Geometries
To 31 May
Metamorphosis of a mini house
Niort,
Usually, I work in abandoned places where I transform the perception of architecture through painting, partial demolitions, reconstructions… in order to give a last exceptional image of a place that is about to disappear…
Indeed, my aim is to keep the photographic memory of both a place and a pictorial action in this place. The photo brings them together in a single image.
I intend to use the “Gaufrette” house as an ephemeral painter-photographer’s studio, and to produce a few works establishing a relationship between painting and architecture through photography.
There are three levels of anchorage in this place, so I’ll be making at least three installations showing my different modes of action in the space, and preparing an exhibition showing all the work I’ve done there.
This house/workshop has the particularity of being narrow, even more so than usual. It has been restored, but it is available to experiment with some actions that are new to me.
My intention is to make a first installation that will enable me to “inhabit” the space and discover the community of Niort, its daily life and its history, which could later generate other projects…
I’ll come in a second time to realize them before transforming the space for the exhibition… A sort of Open Door Workshop…
Practical info
Exceptional opening
“I reorder the visible world into an unprecedented and unforeseen space.” Georges Rousse
A great deal! Taste the “Gauf’Rousse” at Nuage Croquant, a pastry specially designed in tribute to the work of Georges Rousse.
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Biography
Georges Rousse (1947) lives and works in Paris.
As a medical student in Nice, he decided to learn shooting and printing techniques from a professional, and then set up his own architectural photography studio. His passion led him to devote himself entirely to the artistic practice of this medium, following in the footsteps of the great American masters such as Steichen, Stieglitz and Ansel Adams. It was with the discovery of Malevitch’s Black Square on a White Background, and then Land Art, that Georges Rousse chose to intervene in the photographic field, establishing an unprecedented relationship between painting and space. He took over the abandoned sites he had always loved, transforming them into pictorial spaces and constructing a unique, ephemeral work that only photography could reproduce. By establishing an unprecedented relationship between painting, space and photography, Georges Rousse has been developing a powerful and singular body of work for over forty years, shifting the boundaries between traditional media.