From April 30th to June 18, 2022,
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is pleased to present the most recent photographs and drawings of French photographer
Georges Rousse. The opening reception with the artist in attendance is scheduled Saturday April 30th from 3 to 6:30 PM in the gallery space. This is the third solo show of Georges Rousse with Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.
This selection masters one more time the way Georges Rousse enjoys, embraces, and achieves his intervention on abandoned spaces and locations, founding a kind of counter space.
Using space as his raw material, Rousse converts abandoned locations into almost spiritual visions of color and shape, translating his intuitive, instinctual readings of space into masterful images of several
“realities”: that of the actual space, abandoned or soon-to-be demolished; the artist’s imagined mise-en-scène; and the final photograph, or the reality flattened.
Since his first exhibition in 1981 at the Galerie de France in Paris, Rousse has continued creating his one-of-a-kind installations and photographs around the globe. His work has exhibited in the Grand Palais (Paris), Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.), Haggerty Museum (WI), House of Culture (La Paz, Honduras), Sivori Museum (Buenos Aires), and National Art Museum of China, among hundreds of others. In 1988, he received the International Center of Photography Award.
The photographs of Georges Rousse are included in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Louvre Museum, Paris, France, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, IL, Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, Deutsche Bank Collection and most recently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.