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Patrice Picard france
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Roger-Quilliot Art Museum
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The Roger-Quilliot Art Museum (MARQ) is located in Clermont-Ferrand (in the Montferrand district), France, in part of the buildings of a former Ursuline convent built in the 17th century. The museum building was transformed by architects Claude Gaillard and Adrien Fainsilber. The different rooms are arranged on three levels around a central atrium surmounted by a glass roof designed by the engineer Peter Rice. The museum opened in 1992.about the photographer
After practising photography as a hobby since my teenage years, I bought a digital camera ten years ago and set out on new ground, with a different approach. The works of such photographers as Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, Alexander Gronsky, Eugène Atget, Raymond Depardon, Philippe Bazin or Thibault Cuisset have deeply inspired and stimulated me over the past years. My own work has developed around several topics : urban landscape, rural landscape, industrial architecture, but also all the small things that are around us and which we tend to ignore as they seem trivial, outdated or discarded. My eyes are drawn to these objects or places on the margins of our daily experience because, to me, they feel like points of high intensity. I envisage each shot in terms of colour and frame, and I remove as much as possible of the superflous and the anecdotal in order to try and picture the essence of what appears to us. To me, a good picture is self-evident and at the same time delivers complexity ; it reveals tensions at work in our environment, generated by frictions or oppositions between past and present, creation and decay, production and desertion, presence and effacement, or wild and domesticated nature. This web of interplays is what gives me a feeling of highly saturated life in the subjects I capture. In November 2020 I published my first book, “Small shops” .back to gallery
