A certain nature after Giverny.
EXB Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 31656 |
| Format | 23.3 x 29.7 |
| Détails | publisher's cardboard. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365114332 |
The garden of French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926), located in Giverny, is world-renowned for its water lily pond, which inspired the artist and gave rise to sumptuous paintings. This property now welcomes nearly 350,000 visitors per year and remains a magical place. A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Magnum Photos agency, photographer Jean Gaumy has had privileged access to this garden for many years.
An ideal playground for this great nature observer, he experiments throughout all seasons with photography that is both abstract and naturalistic. This science enthusiast succeeds in using the place to produce a unique body of work: formal research into plants, compositions bordering on the pictorial, and even almost microscopic details, the garden becomes something else, out of time. This elsewhere is, in reality, what the artist is looking for.
This attraction to this place stems from memories of his own childhood and the joy he experienced in the family garden. A familiar, secure terrain, a place of all kinds of curiosities, it had such a profound impact on the photographer in his early years that he sought to bring his memories of Giverny back to life. The book is not an atlas of forms, but rather a photographic experiment to show what nature produces from a different perspective.
The images are accompanied by text detailing the mysterious relationship between flora and the imagination.
The garden of French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926), located in Giverny, is world-renowned for its water lily pond, which inspired the artist and gave rise to sumptuous paintings. This property now welcomes nearly 350,000 visitors per year and remains a magical place. A member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Magnum Photos agency, photographer Jean Gaumy has had privileged access to this garden for many years.
An ideal playground for this great nature observer, he experiments throughout all seasons with photography that is both abstract and naturalistic. This science enthusiast succeeds in using the place to produce a unique body of work: formal research into plants, compositions bordering on the pictorial, and even almost microscopic details, the garden becomes something else, out of time. This elsewhere is, in reality, what the artist is looking for.
This attraction to this place stems from memories of his own childhood and the joy he experienced in the family garden. A familiar, secure terrain, a place of all kinds of curiosities, it had such a profound impact on the photographer in his early years that he sought to bring his memories of Giverny back to life. The book is not an atlas of forms, but rather a photographic experiment to show what nature produces from a different perspective.
The images are accompanied by text detailing the mysterious relationship between flora and the imagination.