
Gérard
Gérard Rondeau

biography

Gérard Rondeau was born on April 10, 1953 in Châlons-sur-Marne and died on September 13, 2016 in Créteil.
Gérard Rondeau discovered photography through a book by Henri Cartier-Bresson on the USSR, found in the library of the Alliance Française in Kandy, Sri Lanka, which he directed.
From then on, he abandons his professional activity to dedicate himself to photography, which he learns as a self-taught photographer. He became a recognized photographer and was exhibited in the greatest museums such as the Nationals Gallery of Paris’s Grand Palais or the National Gallery in Jakarta. He also participates in the European Month of Photography in Paris, the Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires, exhibits at the Museum of l’Élysée in Lausanne and at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. He has been exploring the backstage of museums for more than twenty years.
In Istanbul, New York, Sarajevo and Rome, he invented series hailed for their singularity. A great portraitist commissioned by Le Monde for more than twenty years, he gathered a very large collection of portraits of contemporary painters and writers.
For many years, he forged strong friendships, notably with the painter Paul Rebeyrolle and the novelist Yves Gibeau, with whom he traveled the battlefields of the First World War.
A tireless traveler, Rondeau criss-crosses the world but remains deeply attached to his native Champagne (France) where he has chosen to live, taking a new look at the landscapes and the people that make it up.
Gérard Rondeau navigates in a black and white world where he takes endless paths, plays with words, shadows and silences that he assembles to render the stories of suffering worlds.
Author of numerous books on Benin, the cathedrals of France, the Baltic capitals, the Tour de France… Rondeau is a rare and singular photographer. His books and exhibitions seems like a kind of diaries, novels.
Gérard Rondeau was elected Artist of the Year in the category of Plastic Arts at the Crystal Globes ceremony in 2007.
Series


Morocco, tribute to Delacroix, 1999

The Silence, And Nothing Around, 1994

Out of Frame, 1993

Missions, Doctors, up to the other side of the world, 1989

Chroniques d’un portraitiste, 1986

The Chemin des dames (1981-2003)

A Boat on the Marne River, 2009

Morocco, tribute to Delacroix, 1999

The Silence, And Nothing Around, 1994

Out of Frame, 1993

Missions, Doctors, up to the other side of the world, 1989

Chroniques d’un portraitiste, 1986

The Chemin des dames (1981-2003)

A Boat on the Marne River, 2009

Morocco, tribute to Delacroix, 1999

The Silence, And Nothing Around, 1994

Out of Frame, 1993

Missions, Doctors, up to the other side of the world, 1989

Chroniques d’un portraitiste, 1986

The Chemin des dames (1981-2003)
multimedia

A boat on the Marne river, 2011

Yves Gibeau's presbytery, 2005

Rebeyrolle, a Painter Diary, 1999

Everything Went Wrong, 1996

A boat on the Marne river, 2011

Yves Gibeau's presbytery, 2005

Rebeyrolle, a Painter Diary, 1999

Everything Went Wrong, 1996
Interviews
L’humeur vagabonde
France Inter
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Interview by Valérie Ayestaray, 2015
“For his book of photographs I had put the world on the table by Editions des Equateurs and his eponymous exhibition at the Cellier in Reims until February 6, 2016”
Interview de Gérard Rondeau pour son exposition avec Raphaëlle Bacqué
La Fnac
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2012
“The Republic is over 200 years old. A very hackneyed word, used in all ways, a sometimes imperfect regime, a fragile ideal, the Republic remains resolutely modern.”
Chroniques d’un portraitiste – Gérard Rondeau à la Maison Française, D.C.
Maison Française, D.C.
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2012
“The French Embassy in Washington D.C. is exhibiting until March 16, 2012 “One hundred portraits of famous writers and artists” by photographer Gérard Rondeau”
Exhibitions
Sur un pli du temps
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Region of Haut-Lignon, Haut-Loire (FRANCE)
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From July 9 to August 22, 2021
books

Shadows, Au bord de l’ombre

J’avais posé le monde sur la table

Le Louvre

Musée du quai Branly – Là où soufflent les esprits

République

Il se peut qu’on s’évade

La Cathédrale de Reims

La Grande Rivière Marne

Chroniques d’un portraitiste

Médecins (jusqu’au bout) du monde

Hors Cadre

Voyages au Bénin

Sur les lieux du regard

Les Fantômes du Chemin des Dames

L’abbaye de Fontevraud

L‘Échappée libre

Rebeyrolle, ou le journal d’un peintre

Photographier la guerre ? – Bosnie, Croatie, Kosovo

Le Maroc, hommage à Delacroix

Marelle-Mémoire

Le silence et rien alentour

Shadows, Au bord de l’ombre

J’avais posé le monde sur la table

Le Louvre

Musée du quai Branly – Là où soufflent les esprits

République

Il se peut qu’on s’évade

La Cathédrale de Reims

La Grande Rivière Marne

Chroniques d’un portraitiste

Médecins (jusqu’au bout) du monde

Hors Cadre

Voyages au Bénin

Sur les lieux du regard

Les Fantômes du Chemin des Dames

L’abbaye de Fontevraud

L‘Échappée libre

Rebeyrolle, ou le journal d’un peintre

Photographier la guerre ? – Bosnie, Croatie, Kosovo

Le Maroc, hommage à Delacroix

Marelle-Mémoire

Le silence et rien alentour

Shadows, Au bord de l’ombre

J’avais posé le monde sur la table

Le Louvre

Musée du quai Branly – Là où soufflent les esprits

République

Il se peut qu’on s’évade

La Cathédrale de Reims

La Grande Rivière Marne

Chroniques d’un portraitiste

Médecins (jusqu’au bout) du monde

Hors Cadre

Voyages au Bénin

Sur les lieux du regard

Les Fantômes du Chemin des Dames

L’abbaye de Fontevraud

L‘Échappée libre

Rebeyrolle, ou le journal d’un peintre

Photographier la guerre ? – Bosnie, Croatie, Kosovo

Le Maroc, hommage à Delacroix

Marelle-Mémoire

Le silence et rien alentour
awards

Award for the Artist of the Year – category Plastic Arts
For the French work the most exceptionnal of the year
2007

Grand Atlas Award – category “Creation”
For the book “Figures du Maroc”
1997