“Arches” is a narration which central theme are extracts from Genesis. Curated by Ashok Adiceam, the exhibition is a walk through brand new pictures based on the story of Noah’s Ark. Visitors are invited to travel in a mysterious and fascinating universe.
Jean-François Rauzier’s pictures recreate architectures and atmospheres by assembling various elements. As a surrealistic dream, each picture presents a new world between fiction and reality offering many interpretations but always creating a rupture with our today’s world.
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This is definitely an experience that is not to be missed. But for those of you who cannot attend, make sure you visit the ‘Project Arches’ website for a spectacularly detailed virtual tour of the exhibition and endless full-screen zoom-ins through a collection of Jean-François Rauzier’s past projects. Seen as a whole, his spectacular oeuvre invites us to embark on an fanciful journey through parallel universes of replicated reality where the imaginary co-exists with the real.
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Highly acclaimed, multi award-winning French photographer and visual artist Jean-François Rauzier has quite a long tradition as a distinctive visual storyteller and a prolific purveyor of re-imagined photographic hyper realities and utopian worlds.
Jean-François Rauzier was immediately captivated by numerical photography when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. He has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by computer’s retouching since then, turning himself into a “virtual” painter.
In 2002, he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept which enables him to deal with the impossible: to combine both infinitely big and infinitely small things in one same image, out of time.
To simulate the illusion of reality, Jean-François Rauzier first had to cope with all the inherent limits inherent of the photographic and technological equipment.
He found his way by juxtaposing, duplicating, twisting images with Photoshop, making it possible for him to reproduce human vision more accurately. This way, he generated a genuine numerical puzzle, in which the pieces, cut out, “drawn again”, come up along on top of the imagination of the artist. From this technique is issued numerous fascinating and unusual details on which the spectator can dwell on.
The multitude of images invite the spectators to an inside journey, in dream-like, fantastic and timeless worlds. These worlds are filled with icons and references born of the artist’s cultural hall of fame.
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