Gerard Rancinan is a French artists born in Bordeaux and one of the highest ranked photographers in France. He travels around the globe and witnesses events of historical and political importance such as ethnic wars, natural catastrophes, urban riots. In his pictures he explores burning issues of human condition in contemporary world, for which he was awarded a World Press Award.
Opera Gallery in London presented his first London show of his latest series of photographs. Gallery presents four series of photographs.
First of them is Metamorphoses which is the artist’s testimonial of the mutations shaking our world today. His photography is inspired by artistic masterpieces. By drawing on from ancient art he revisits mankaind‘s most significant troubles and historical events to reveal how important they still remain today. By extremely controversial set of portraits and photographs he addresses planet’s most profound issues such as globalisation, ecology, migration, human rights, freedom, fast foods and starvation. Series Wonderful world portraits world as a big amusement park and Portraits is a set of portraits of famous artists living in a creative world, such as Moncia Belluci, which unravel parts of their artistic souls.
Gerard Rancinan is a must-see artist not only due to highest professional quality and realisation of his photographs but most of all because of the problems which he addresses which his photographs so powerfully reveal and about which we so easily tend to forget.
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