Art Exhibition by NICOLE DUFOUR

City: New-Delhi
Location: Romain Rolland Gallery, Alliance Française de Delhi
Date: Thu, 2011/03/17 – 6:00pm – Sat, 2011/03/19 – 8:00pm
Price: Free Admission
Category: Exhibition
Duration: 3 days

 

Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes
presents

 

 

Encorpdages

by NICOLE DUFOUR

 Photographs

from 17 to 19th March, 11 am to 8 pm

at Romain Rolland Gallery
Alliance Française de Delhi
72, Lodhi Estate New-Delhi

Free Admission, Open to All.

 

 

For her latest creations, Nicole Dufour has chosen photography. Not for itself, but for what this technique can undertake: to display reality or reason, capture the moment, compose and recompose the vision, examine the eyes, raise questions.

The new work by Nicole Dufour, produced in India, both in Madras and Pondicherry during the summer of 2010, are color photographs, assembled as a diptych, the left panel showing a general plan, the right one the close-up of a person. The relationship between the two images is given by the same element that passes from one to another: a braided rope, either black, a single bright color or multicolored (…).

Through these new works, the message Nicole Dufour is making is clear: despite variations such as a single immobile character or a sequence of five juxtaposed images expressing movement, what the images have in common is that they display a subject in two parts, show an area or a site, the presence of the human being, an action. In each case the rope is present, braided, colored, inert, animated, binding beings together, gripping things, marking the spot (…).
Nicole Dufour is  a Western artist whose creations are shaped by her knowledge of Hindu spirituality, her long stay in China, India and Japan, her attraction to the Orient.

 

Serge Lemoine

Serge Lemoine lives in France. Ph.D. in History of Art, creator of the Chair of Twentieth Century Art at the Ecole du Louvre, he was successively chief curator of the Museum of Grenoble and Chairman of the Musée d’Orsay.
He is currently professor of Art history at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne