We proudly facilitated Jean-Francois Rauzier’s residency at Giverny, the home of Impressionist master Claude Monet from 1883 to 1926. From May to July, he stayed in a large cottage on...
We proudly facilitated
Jean-Francois Rauzier’s residency at Giverny, the home of Impressionist master
Claude Monet from 1883 to 1926. From May to July, he stayed in a large cottage
on this wonderful property, about 40 miles north of Paris, which inspired so
many of Monet's most beloved works. Using the famous gardens and pond designed
by Monet, and even the interior of Monet’s home and studio, Rauzier has created
a stunning series of new works responding to the legacy of the great artist.
Rauzier took many
thousands of photographs and then meticulously stitched together literally
hundreds of images for each individual work to create this series of
fantastical photographic Hyperphotos. With Giverny, he's made new fantastic
landscapes, a capricious pictures, baroque masterpieces. There are works
incorporating the famous pond, the Japanese bridge, the main house and Monet’s
studio, and some more abstracted works featuring only flowers. He works in some
ways more like a painter than a photographer, creating his own supernatural
man-made world. He strives to transform the world according to his dreams,
wishes and anxieties, and to recreate the magic and secrecy of ancient legends
and stories using 21st century media.
Jean-Francois Rauzier is
an internationally acclaimed photographer, who has had museum shows in Paris,
Moscow, Los Angeles and Washington DC. Waterhouse & Dodd is his exclusive
agent in the USA, UK and Middle East and has shown his work in exhibitions and
fairs in New York, Palm Beach, Miami, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi, Maastricht and
London, selling over 200 of his ‘Hyperphotos’.
Rauzier’s work transforms
reality; it fascinates us with its scale and takes the viewer on a journey
through the visible world. Rauzier uses thousands of high-resolution close-ups
views and stitches them into his large compositions, maintaining the focus and
sharpness of the smallest detail.
Of course, none of his
mastery of technology would be worthy unless it was combined with a true
artistic vision. Rauzier also possesses a deep knowledge of literature, art
history and history, and utilizes all these with his unique wit and humor.