Georges rousse writing art

French artist and photographer Georges Rousse is internationally renowned for his ephemeral, one-of-a-kind installations and resulting photographs.

Rousse may draw, paint, and/or build constructions that enable him to realize his vision for the space. This may involve one or more primary shapes, painted letters, chalk, newspapers, wooden lattices, and more. 

Working at the intersections of photography, painting and architecture, Rousse transforms abandoned or soon-to-be-demolished buildings into surprising visions of color and shape through the single-perspective of his camera lens.

Using space as his raw material, Rousse translates 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.

The work of Georges Rousse (b.1947) ha