痕跡と変容 : ジョルジュ・ルースの空間

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George Rousse, photographer fascinated by expressive powers of painting demonstrated by the movement called "Figuration Libre" (Free Figuration) in the beginning of the 1980's, has started taking pictures of buildings abandoned and destined to demolition. Inspired by the traces invoking lives of inhabitants who have already left the place, Rousse doesn't nevertheless leave it intact. He always paints and cuts all the surfaces: walls, ceilings, and floors. We find in his work a real space and an imaginary one, intricately woven one into another. "Anamorphose" (Anamorphosis), deformation based on the linear perspective, makes it possible to gather pieces disseminated in a room and to (re) construct an image : dematerializing things, Rousse creates picture plane that would exist only within a photography. His works remind us of the ambition held by many western artists to reintegrate arts into architecture, represented especially by the case of Fernand Leger, painter who tried to "enlarge" interior spaces of architecture by juxtaposing vivid colors on the wall. Rousse seems to have succeded in realizing this ambition in the opposite direction, by integrating all into a photography : metamorphosis completed in a way evoking the vision proposed by Andre Malraux, that considers the photography as an effective way of resurrecting and eternalizing works of art.
2002-09-10