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Lucien Clergue, Rétrospective
7 – 22 november

Born in Arles in 1934, Lucien Clergue died in Nîmes the 15th of November, 2014.
In 1961 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to celebrated his work. In 2007 Clergue became one of the first photographers ever to be elected as a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts de l’Institut de France. An exhibition of his work is to be shown at the Grand Palais from November 2015 to February 2016.
In 1950, he began to record the aftemaths of the war by taking photos of the ruins of his home town. Gypsies with whom he shares a passion for music and the bull ring, (which he attends regularly), are a continual stimulous to his poetic imagination. Picasso, enthousiastic about Clergue’s work becoming the model for a series of portraits which would become famous worldwide.
From 1956, Clergue’s inspiration moved from ideas of death to ideas of rebirth seen in his series of nudes, icons of love and life. Bodies and landscapes, natural elements and flesh mingle together to become part of a same ensemble.

Landscape, as cradle for the living, conveyed in his series of photos recording traces left behind in sand become for Clergue traces of a language comparable to writing. In 1980 these sand photographs were published in a book entitled « Langage des sables » prefaced by Roland Barthes.