Morocco, tribute to Delacroix, 1999
In Morocco, Delacroix left to paint and draw “from nature”, to experience lights, colors, shapes, horses and riders, faces and bodies.
From Morocco, Gérard Rondeau brings back impressionist images, night visions, passers-by who have become shapes or sculptures that he meets in the streets. Delacroix’s eye quickly remembered, to guide his hand, a scene he had just seen. Rondeau’s camera captures, on its order and in the framing it has decided, the organization of forms as they move in front of it. What these two practices have in common remains intimately linked to the very nature of their trip, to their way of not just traveling to visit, but to see.
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