"In the desert it is necessary to divest oneself of all cultural baggage ...
one is free from all certainties and intellectual clichés."
The French artist Jean Verame, born in 1939, created the multidimensional installation "blue rocks" near the small town of Tafraoute in 1984. With permission of King Hassan II, Verame painted granite rocks and small hills in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. He used 18 tons of blue, red, purple and white color.
Jean Verames work sets the focus on the intensity of the landscape. His approach is similar to a landscape painter as the emptiness of the desert resembles the virgin space of a canvas on which he inscribes his colorful elements.
First in 1965 he painted a thousand stones on the beach of Cap Ferrat in France. In the 1970s he painted 1 km of cliffs and pebble beaches of a river bed in the Cèvennes, also 2.5 km of a coast in Corsica. Other major landscape projects took place in the 1980s in the desert of Sinai, on the plateau of Hallaoui in Egypt and in Chad.
The colors are now somewhat faded by sun, sand and rain. Nature brings finally back the rocks.
20.02.2023
Leider ist die Location inzwischen so vermüllt, dass es keinen Spaß mehr macht,
die Dose zu suchen und ich es auch niemandem zumuten möchte.
Um den Cache dennoch aktiv zu halten, mach bitte einen FOTOLOG