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Launched with the Marrakech Biennale (covered) the new museum space of the Montresso* Art Foundation opened with a retrospective dedicated to French photographer Gerard Rancinan, retracing forty years of photographic work.

Intensely theatrical and heavily staged, the photographs feature a rich visual landscape with elaborate costumes and dramatic poses.

The world’s biggest photograph measuring 9 x 13 meters features ‘Le Radeau des Illusions’ outside the new museum space.

Gérard Rancinan & Caroline Gaudriault

Conceived in collaboration with French author Caroline Gaudriault, the exhibition showcases a series of the largest to date photographs retracing major periods of the artist: Portraits ( showing artist friends within their creative space), The Trilogy of Moderns ( 2007 – 2013) and Human Destiny (2015).

Texts by Caroline Gaudriault have been calligraphed by Ouida Abdelghani and translated by Said Tliti.

Gérard Rancinan & Caroline Gaudriault
Montresso Art Foundation

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Rancinan and Caroline Baudriault
Montresso* Art Foundation
Marrakech

French photographer Gerard Rancinan comes to London’s Opera Gallery as his first stop on a world tour, taking in Hong Kong, Miami and New York, with his larger-than -life images, Metamorphoses, Hypotheses, Wonderful World and Portraits.

The artist, who has four World Press Awards, revisits our most ancient and significant interrogations, such as globalisation, poverty, starvation, freedom and human rights using his vivid and dynamic style.

He also features portraits of famous artists ranging from Monica Belluci to Zang Huan, revealing their talent and force of nature in captivating ‘portrait performances.’