the following post is a short introduction of the painter, photographer, and architect –a gist to get you in his shoes — and an extra rare collection of his photos under the subject ”Figuration” , 1983.
Georges Rousse
(From bio)”His raw material is Space: the space of deserted buildings. Taking his inspiration from a site’s architectonic quality and the light he finds there, he quickly chooses a “fragment” and creates a mise-en-scène, keeping in mind his ultimate goal, creating a photographic image…
…In these empty spaces, Georges Rousse constructs a kind of utopia that projects his vision of the world–his imaginary “universe.” His creation both expresses his artistic intentions and resonates with his impressions of the site, its history and its culture..
…Finally, this results in a photograph, a flat plane, so the shapes he paints and draws, and the volumes and architectural constructions he creates in those massive spaces seem fractured or split on different levels. His photo masterfully brings together painting, architecture, and drawing. It carves out a new space in which the artist’s fictive world becomes visible.”
Delphine Renard in Flash Art, May 1983 on “Figuration”:
These painted figures with their ghostly appearance serve as a springboard for the imagination. like mute actors in a play, but in a theatre that turns the traditional relationship of actor to stage set upside down; here, the active subject is the fullness of the space, which is revealed like a haunting “site from memory”.
Gallery
Georges Rousse “Figuration” 1983
©Georges Rousse\ADAGP
Hope you enjoyed the interior and exterior relations
inabit
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