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Marie Sommer - Une Île

€35.00

Lancement / Signature
8 octobre 2021
18h - 20h

Book Launch / Signing
October 8, 2021
6 PM - 8 PM

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Une île est volontairement laissée sans désignation, c’est un possible, une narration réelle et fictionnelle, qui retrace l’attraction qu’exerce ce lieu sur l’imaginaire. L’ouvrage rassemble des photographies prises entre 2012 et 2015, un texte original de Jean-Yves Jouannais, et des extraits d’un essai de Rafael Argullol “ L’attraction de l’abîme”, publié en 1983. Tous ces éléments traitant à leur manière de certains aspects de l’île de Rügen située dans le Nord-est de l’Allemagne sur la mer Baltique, dont les falaises de craie, s’abîmant dans la mer, ont été immortalisées le peintre romantique Caspard David Friedrich en 1818. Putbus, première station balnéaire de l’île, est fondée en 1816 et plus tard, d’autres stations sont créées. En 1936 les autorités nazies planifient une station composée d’un immeuble uniforme de six kilomètres qui fait face à la mer : Prora. Celui-ci, cité balnéaire contenue dans une barre unique de 5 kilomètres organisée par la KdF : Kraft durch Freude (la force par la joie), a pour but d’accueillir 20 000 vacanciers en même temps. Le bâtiment construit aux deux tiers, n’est jamais terminé, car la guerre interrompt sa construction, et ses ruines, alignent 10 000 chambres répétées à l’identique sur 5 étages, avec toutes, une vue sur la mer. Il sert ensuite de base militaire pour l’armée soviétique pendant la guerre froide, et disparait momentanément des cartes.

Ruegen, la plus grande des île allemande (900 km2), est située sur la mer Baltique, entre la Pologne et le Danemark. Sa géographie est instable et ses contours mouvants. Les falaises de craie de l’île, descendant vers la mer pour s’y écrouler, emportent avec elles les arbres et toute la végétation qu’elles contiennent.
Le livre Une île, regroupe des photographies réalisées à Rügen entre 2011 et 2013, et des images trouvées, documents anonymes, d’archives ou vernaculaires. L’origine de chaque image n’est pas précisée, laissant l’île dessinée, flotter entre le possible et l‘imaginaire.

Cet ouvrage a reçu le support du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône et de la Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid.

Co-production : Cnap - Centre national des arts plastiques
Parution : 04/01/2021
Collection : Hors Collection
Format : 195 x 282
Anglais/Français
Relié couverture cartonnée
81 photographies en couleur et en noir et blanc
72 pages
ISBN : 978-2-35046-518-0

Please note that colors may slightly differ between the screen and the actual product.

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