L'art de métissage - Pont des Arts

There is no way of telling you how happy I was when I first discovered this expo of photos....

After all these month of rain I had just been a little homesick for India and to see it captured so well in colour,spirit and movement by the photos Francis Gazeau the rest of my day became just pure joy....

Il n'y a pas des mots pour vous dire mon bonheur quand j'ai découvert cette expo de photos...

Après toutes ces mois de pluie j'avais juste un peu le mal du pays pour l’Inde et de voir ce merveilleux pays capter si bien en mouvement,couleur et ésprit par les photos de Francis Gazeau le reste de ma journée n’était que de la joie ...

 

Well, this said I would like to present you here the English translation of the text on his website which is presently only available in French ....

 Ceci dit j'aimerais bien vous présenter ici la traduction en Anglais du texte sur son site web.Donc j'éspère que vous allez me pardonner que à partir d'ici le texte serait qu’en Anglais ...

The Art of Interweaving.

While travelling all over the world Francis Gazeau is gathering subjects,silhouettes or sceneries and then on a luminous table he is mixing them in an unusual art of interweaving or ‘métissage’.

All the cultures and lands he has travelled from Birmanie to Guatemala,from Egypt to Mali,from Kenya to India are assembled here.

During this exposition the Pont des Arts is becoming a meeting place for all lovers of the world.

By freeing photography from its values as a document and clothing it with textural effects Francis Gazeau creates an unknown fantastic universe where the world of vegetation,faces and minerals are superimposed.

He is revealing himself as an artist of nature.

In the first creative phase he remains an artists who refuses all treatment of the image by computer.His particular sensitivity is capturing an instant of life and immortalising it in a content sometimes close to cave paintings.

Eliminating the distance of photography by the closeness to detail and texture he blends the work of the hand with that of the eye. Only organic substance is touching up the photographic image.

The photographies of Francis Gazeau have been exposed at the Institut du Monde Arabe and at the Unesco in Paris , at the European Parlament in Strasbourg as well as in several prestigious galleries in Europe and in the United States.The Palace of the United Nations in Genever and the Seat of the United Nations in New York are the next sites of exposition planned for 2006 and 2007.