Le port antique de Trangées (2022) Photography by Gaspard De Gouges
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- Categories Conceptual Art Seascape
Cette photo mise en scène est une évocation du monde littéraire de Julien Gracq, un amoureux de la méditerranée lui aussi. Il s'agit ici de recomposer en image un monde qui n'était jusqu'à présent que littéraire.
Between two rocks is a strange complex built on several levels, it is the entrance to the ancient port of Trangées. This is about ten miles northeast of the current port of Trangées. The pass in front of us is the old passage that leads to a small harbor in deep water that could accommodate a dozen vessels. To the right of this fortification one can contemplate what remains of the old arsenals, and the remains of what was to be the city.
This staged photo is an evocation of the literary world of Julien Gracq, a lover of the Mediterranean too. It is a question here of recomposing in image a world which until now was only literary.
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Gaspard de Gouges lives and works in the Gard, between Montpellier and Marseille (France). He is a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. In the early 2000s, he began to paint large format figurative canvases, group portraits. Since 2021 he has devoted himself to photography, which has become a game for him, a kind of motionless journey.
"I started photographing scenes when I was 10 years old, with very realistic toys and models that I built with stalks of dry grass, miniature vehicles. For a long time I wanted to photograph islands, to their dreamlike power, I love to travel there and their memory persists. Their existence plunges us into an elsewhere. I imagined them tropical, but it is on mineral and Mediterranean islands that I finally decided to evoke. My approach is to create stagings, artificial but plausible, realistic landscapes. I create imaginary worlds, sometimes containing ruins, at least rocks that sometimes make me think of fortresses. These landscapes surprise me and always give me a lot of pleasure to create. "
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Nationality:
FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1971
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists
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