Seller Gaspard De Gouges
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1500 px |
| Dimensions of the file (px) | 1500x1500 |
| Use worldwide | Yes |
| Use on multi-support | Yes |
| Use on any type of media | Yes |
| Right of reselling | No |
| Max number of prints | 0 (Zero) |
| Products intended for sale | No |
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Photography,
Non Manipulated Photography
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Digital Photography
on Paper
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Dimensions
16.5x16.5 in
Dimensions of the work alone, without framing: Height 15.8in, Width 15.8in - Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is framed (Frame + Under Glass)
- Categories Photographs under $5,000 Symbolism Landscape
Au second plan, face à nous, une barque en bois sombre, silencieuse, est accostée à un quai bas en pierre de taille. Ce quai, noyé dans l’ombre, est absorbé par l’obscurité d’un monde intérieur. La barque est vide, mais sa présence est lourde de signification — elle évoque un passage, une traversée, une attente figée dans le temps.
À droite, un second quai, plus élevé, baigne dans une lumière oblique, dorée et mélancolique. Sur ce promontoire de pierre taillée, une statue se dresse : une femme, des femmes immobiles, drapées à l’antique, portant une vasque.
Tout cet ensemble architectural — les quais, la statue, les escaliers invisibles — est adossé à une paroi rocheuse imposante. Cette paroi est percée de niches creusées à la main, d’un style antique. Certaines évoquent des sanctuaires, d'autres, plus profondes, ressemblent à des tombeaux. On ne sait s’il s’agit de lieux de culte, de mémoire ou d’oubli. Leur agencement irrégulier dans la roche accentue l’idée d’un monde ancien, sacré, dont le sens s’est perdu.
La photographie, toute en clair-obscur, joue sur les contrastes de lumière et d’ombre pour faire émerger une atmosphère de seuil : un lieu entre le réel et le mythe, entre la vie et la mort, entre la matière et le rêve. Elle ne montre pas la fin d’un voyage, mais le lieu d’un passage — un purgatoire méditerranéen figé dans le silence.
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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
