Gauguin in his last setting and other texts from Tahiti.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 30379 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 182 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377921515 |
Water roars everywhere, bursts on the mountain, soaks the ground, winds in rivers along the bed of round pebbles. Everything lives, everything emerges, in the fragrant warmth of summers barely tinged with drought, everything: except the race of men. For they are dying, they are dying, the pale, slender Marquesans. Without regrets, without complaints, nor recriminations, they move towards the approaching exhaustion.
A young naval doctor, Victor Segalen was posted to Tahiti in 1903. He narrowly missed Paul Gauguin, who had died the previous year on the island of Hiva-Oa, but painted a portrait of him that was published for the first time in the Mercury of France in 1904, accompanied here by previously unpublished works. Journal excerpts, fragmented projects and correspondence enrich this volume, anchored in the distant lands of the Pacific. The explorer goes back, waltzing between metaphysical reflections and poetry, to the painter's Tahitian experience, following his trail through the prism of his art, imbued with Maori culture and its tragic present. The deep bond is revealed which, without them ever having met, united these two major artists of their time, both captivated by the spiritual beauty and exotic mysteries of these landscapes and their civilizations. Precious writings for all lovers of the arts and a change of scenery.
Water roars everywhere, bursts on the mountain, soaks the ground, winds in rivers along the bed of round pebbles. Everything lives, everything emerges, in the fragrant warmth of summers barely tinged with drought, everything: except the race of men. For they are dying, they are dying, the pale, slender Marquesans. Without regrets, without complaints, nor recriminations, they move towards the approaching exhaustion.
A young naval doctor, Victor Segalen was posted to Tahiti in 1903. He narrowly missed Paul Gauguin, who had died the previous year on the island of Hiva-Oa, but painted a portrait of him that was published for the first time in the Mercury of France in 1904, accompanied here by previously unpublished works. Journal excerpts, fragmented projects and correspondence enrich this volume, anchored in the distant lands of the Pacific. The explorer goes back, waltzing between metaphysical reflections and poetry, to the painter's Tahitian experience, following his trail through the prism of his art, imbued with Maori culture and its tragic present. The deep bond is revealed which, without them ever having met, united these two major artists of their time, both captivated by the spiritual beauty and exotic mysteries of these landscapes and their civilizations. Precious writings for all lovers of the arts and a change of scenery.