Collection(s) : Encounters
Paru le 04/01/2021 | Broché sous jaquette
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& photographs Thierry Fontaine | translated by Paul Buck & Catherine Petit
« The evolution of the human species takes place within an essential mechanism: global mixing. It concerns all living things. Plants and animals know this adventure. Today's gardens reflect this dynamic. If they oppose it they die or freeze in a museum figure. It is on this ground that the gardener as the photographer can see it every day by observing nature: a new scenography, the appearance of an unknown plant, the work of a spider or the trace of a marten, the landscape has changed: life always invents. And this invention is most often done by the miracle of the encounter. » - G. Clement
For this encounter Gilles Clément met Thierry Fontaine both globetrotters and fascinated by the evolutionary process of living and mutant landscapes.
Gilles Clément is a celebrated French botanist, horticultural engineer, landscape architect and writer. Above all he is a gardener who travels the planet and pursues theoretical and practical work from three research axes, the Moving Garden, the Planetary Garden and the Third Landscape. Since the early 1970s he has been designing and creating gardens for private clients in France like the Parc Andre Citroen (in co-design), the garden of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris etc. Several prizes have been awarded to his work, including the « Grand prix du paysage » in 1998. He is the author of about thirty books including Environ (ne) ment : Approaches for Tomorrow (Skira, 2006) - Leendert Blok : Silent Beauties (Hatje Cantz, 2015) - The Planetary Garden and Other Writings (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) (University of Pennsylvania Press ; 2015) -A Big Garden (Prestel Junior, 2018)-
Thierry Fontaine is a photographer from Reunion Island, whose images, often poetic, arise from scenes and situations where hybridizations, crossbreeds are imposed or fortuitous. A singular work constructed through a plurality of resources drawn from heterogeneous spheres that are at once artistic, cultural, political and poetic. His work has been shown in many places, among them the Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2003 - ARC / Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2003 - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 3005 - Raw Space Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2007 - StudioMuseum, Harlem, New-York, 2008, 2009 - Center Pompidou, Paris, 2015 - Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, 2016 etc
