Jean-Francois Rauzier  (French, 1952) 

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Jean-Francois Rauzier Biography
1976   Graduated from the School Louis Lumière
  In 2002, when Jean-François Rauzier created his first hyper-photographs, he was already an established photographer in search of a new creative method that would differ considerably from the traditional model. He strove to capture “the panorama and the macro view all at once, to stop the time and to have the possibility of viewing all the details of a static image”. Rauzier’s works transform the reality, they fascinate with their scale, and take their viewer on a journey through the visible world. In Rauzier uses thousands of high-resolution close-ups views and collages them into monumental pictures thus maintaining the focus and sharpness of the smallest detail. Rauzier carefully composes each element, creating his own supernatural man-made world. Using digital technologies, he cuts, moves and constructs tree-trunks, branches, leaves and many other objects carefully collected during long photographic sessions to inspire a new fantastic landscape, a capricious picture or a baroque masterpiece. He weaves a magical space, to embody surreal visions, to lead the viewer past the fantasy. He strives to transform the world according to his dreams, wishes and anxieties, and to recreate the magic and secrecy of ancient legends and stories using 21st century media.
Selected Exhibitions
2012   Obsession of Space, hammer gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2012   Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China (solo)
2012   Hyper-Versailles, Musée Lambinet, Versailles, France (solo)
2012   Babel, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France (solo)
2012   Promenades Photographiques, Vendôme, France (solo)
2011   The Annenberg Space for photography, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2011   Dicesan Museum, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2011   Bailly Gallery, Animals, Paris, France (solo)
2010   Musée des années 30, Espace 2030, Outremondes, Boulogne-Billancourt, France (solo)
2010   Soho Building Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2010   Federal Reserve, Washington, USA (solo)
2009   10 ans prix Arcimboldo, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France (solo)
2009   The real and the virtual, Festival international de la photographie, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2009   Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2009   Forthcoming in November with Waterhouse & Dodd, London (solo)
2009   Les plaisirs de Martell Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2009   L’Art en Direct Showroom, Paris, France (solo)
2009   Galerie Embiricos, Paris, France (solo)
2009   Galerie Bailly, Paris, France (solo)
2008   Parcours parisien de la photographie, Paris, France (solo)
2008   Galerie Cosmos, Prix Arcimboldo, Paris, France (solo)
2008   Mois de la photographie, Galerie Basia Embiricos, Paris, France (solo)
2008   Galerie Honfleur, Washington DC (solo)
2007   EDF Foundation, Bazacle Espace, Toulouse, France (solo)
2007   L’Art en Direct Showroom, Paris, France (solo)
2007   Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
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2008   Jean- François Rauzier, Prix Arcimboldo, Hervé Le Goff in Le Photographe
2007   Un monde hors limite, Elisabeth Couturier
2007   Quazi una fantasia, Sandro Iovine in Il Fotografo
2007   Les récompenses des derniers prix photo no. 16 L. H. in Connaissance des Arts
2007   Parcours Photo, Matons, Marie-Odile Perulli in Elle
2007   Arrêt sur images, VZ in Version Femina
2007   Bienvenue dans la cinquième dimension, Elisabeth Couturier in Paris
2007   Match Jean François Rauzier’s Hyperphotos, Larry Brownstein in Ranger Finder
2006   Time for Digital, Barden Prisant in Art Business News
2006   Sandro Iovine in Manifesto