In 1983, Pierre de Fenoÿl was awarded a grant from the Centre national de la photographie to photograph Egypt, following in the footsteps of Félix Teynard and Maxime Du Camp, who were pioneers of photography.
In his imagination, the pilgrimage to the funerary and sacred monuments of ancient Egypt, the temples and tombs, reflected a return to the origins, which he saw as magical, of photography. He would spend almost a year in Alexandria, Luxor and Sinai, bringing back hundreds of images, some of them documentary, some of them more mysterious. Recording the traces of time, he attempted to link the natural elements to each other, with trees, stone, earth and light fusing to form a synthesis. After he got back to France, his work was printed in large format by Yvon Le Marlec and exhibited at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, in Paris, with a printed portfolio in phototype. The exhibition would subsequently travel to Atlanta under the title “Egyptian Suite”.
This room presents a group of 15 vintage and modern prints, as well as documents and a sound excerpt from the programme Photogaphes, archives sonores, entretien de Jean- François Chevrier avec Pierre de Fenoÿl, 1981.
EXHIBITION
Pierre de Fenoÿl (1945-1987). An imaginary geography
From June 20th to October 31st, 2015
Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours
25 avenue André Malraux
37000 Tours
France
+33 (0)2 47 21 61 95
Tuesday – Sunday 2pm – 6pm
Free Entrance
http://www.jeudepaume.org
UPCOMING
Pierre de Fenoÿl Paysages conjugués
From September 5 to December 31st, 2015
Galerie Le Réverbère
38 Rue Burdeau
69001 Lyon
France
Tél. : +33 (0)4 72 00 06 72
http://www.galerielereverbere.com
BOOK
« Pierre de Fenoÿl. An imaginary geography »
Texts by Virginie Chardin, Jacques Damez, Peter Galassi.
Éditions Jeu de Paume / Xavier Barral.
240 pages 24 x 28 cm
144 photographs
Price : 50 euros
ISBN : 9782365110730
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