Un ancien monsastère sur l'île de Bosra (2022) Photography by Gaspard De Gouges
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Seller Gaspard De Gouges
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Digital Photography
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- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Categories Hyperrealism History
In this highly contrasted staging, what is first of all striking is the relationship between this cliff in the foreground which takes up almost the entire height of the image and the island in the distance, a compact mass which is confined to the lower right part of photography. The contrast between this cliff in the shadows in the foreground and the island in full light in the distance is also remarkable. On the latter one can distinguish architectural forms which could be the remains of the imaginary monastery of Bosra.
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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. "
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1971
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists