Rousse

Georges Rousse is an installation artist/photographer whom I have long admired. 
As a young artist he made paintings and drawings on the walls of derelict buildings.  At some point he began to integrate the drawings with physical elements in the space. It is easy enough to call his work a simple trompe d'oeil, but I think that such a statement completely misses the point. Rousse creates 3-dimensional sculptures with color, installations that can be appreciated from all viewpoints, but whose rhetoric is intensified from a single point in space. He transforms the mundane and forgotten into places of wonder. Though essentially impermanent (their permanence is the photographic document), these installations are often left in place to be enjoyed by the public, until they crumble or are dismantled.