Denis Rouvre

At the occasion of the World Day of the misery's refusal, the October 17th, and the annual rapport's publication about the cares's access of the poorest person in France, "Médecins du Monde" are presenting "REGARDONS LA PRECARITE EN FACE", an exhibition of large sizes prints, at the Hôtel de la Ville de Paris's parvis.

Those women, those men and child, precarious and excluded, that "Médecins du Monde" are following everyday in France, like anywhere in the World, we wanted to give them the speech, give them a face. This is Imre, Armelle, Najat, Marco, Jean-Michel or Constantin. At the occasion of the International Day of the misery's eradication, they accepted to become ambassadors of all of those which are sharing the same fate. Everyone of them are illustrating at the same time, a personal itinerary and a fault in our cares's access. In all their humanity, their dignity, with their sufferings and their hopes, they are lookig at us, eyes in the eyes. And they calling us. Extract from the text's project.

Hôtel de Ville de Paris's parvis.
Exhibition from the October 16th to 19th 2014.

Médecins du Monde

Noorderlicht Photo Festival (Netherlands) presents a selection of pictures from the Cosplay series, mixing group shots and individual portraits. Images, shot in Japan between 2011 and 2013, introduce people playing manga figures, troubling portraits of young men and women throwing themselves in some sort of unconscious annihilation.

This work will be presented during the 21st edition of the festival, "An Ocean of Possibilities" and particularly in the "Subcultures" section.


Noorderlicht Photo Festival
Blokhuispoort
Noorderlicht, Netherlands
Exhibition from 31 August to 26 October 2014

Noorderlicht Photo Festival

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Project 2.0 Gallery in The Hague (Netherlands) presents under the generic title "Black Eyes" a selection of portraits from the Lamb, Sumo, Low Tide and Cosplay series. This exhibition is also the opportunity to discover some pictures from the recent work Thai Boxing, realized in Bangkok (Thailand) in 2013.

Opening on 6 September, 20.00
Exhibition from 6 September to 6 October 2014
Project 2.0 Gallery
Noordeinde 57
2514 GC La Haye
The Netherlands

www.project20.nl

The brand new series Identities, Intimate territories, is presented during Rencontres d'Arles Edition 45. Showed as a video, public will be able to see the faces and hear the words of people questionned about the notion of identity, during a one year trip in France.
"He allowed all these French folk, who are usually never heard, to speak, these anonymous people whose bodies, postures, words, at times offensive, at times hesitant, describe a geography on a human scale, a territory where man stands tall, no matter the boundaries."
From a text by Natacha Wolinski

Rencontres d'Arles - Edition 45
Eglise Saint-Blaise. Arles
Exhibition from 7 July to 21 September 2014

Rencontres d'Arles

Invited by Olympus for the second edition of the Photographic conversation Olympus/ENSP, between three eminent contemporary photographers and three students from the school, Denis Rouvre presents five images from his series Cosplay, to which Steven Daniel, student to whom he was dialoguing with, answered with five images he produced for the assignment.

Photographic conversation Olympus/ENSP
Exhibition at the Atelier de Chaudronnerie, Arles
From 7 July to 21 September 2014

Hélène Bailly Gallery presents pictures from the photographer's most recent series, KANAK. For this new personal work, Denis Rouvre was invited in residency by the "Centre Culturel Tjibaou" in Nouméa in May 2013. He spent three weeks among some of the kanak tribes of New-Caledonia North Province. This series was first presented at the "Centre Culturel Tjibaou" and in Vichy for the first edition of "Portrait(s) festival". These portraits and group portraits brilliantly enlighten these "landscape men and women ".

This exhibition takes place during the third edition of "Photo Saint-Germain des Prés Festival". The festival theme this year is "Faces and bodies".

Galerie Hélène Bailly
38, rue de Seine
75006 Paris
France
Exhibition from 7 to 23 November 2013

Hélène Bailly Gallery

Photo Saint-Germain des Prés Festival

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European Commission presents the new collection realized for Fishlove. 'Fishlove' is an ongoing photographic project that invites well-known personalities across the globe to raise awareness of how over-fishing is destroying the marine environment. After Rankin and Alan Gelati, Denis Rouvre is the third artist to bring his contribution to this project. He photographed Mélanie Bernier, Barbara Cabrita, Thomas Dutronc, Kenzo, Emmanuel de Brantes, Jean-Marc Barr, Serge Hazanavicius, Aure Atika, Caroline Ducey.

European Commission - Berlaymont (1st Floor Hall)
rue de la Loi, 200
Brussels, Belgium
Exhibition from 21 October to 12 November 2013

European Commission
Fishlove

Project 2.0 Gallery in The Hague presents a selection of prints from the most recent series Lamb, Low Tide and Sumo during the first edition of the art fair Art The Hague.

Art The Hague
Fokker Terminal
Binckhorstlaan 249
The Hague, Netherlands

From 2 to 6 October 2013

Art The Hague
Galerie Project 2.0

A selection of these portraits produced ​​in New Caledonia is also presented at the Cultural Center Valery-Larbaud for the first edition of Portrait (s), photographic event in the city of Vichy, dedicated to the art of portrait.

Cultural Centre Valery-Larbaud
20, rue Maréchal Foch
03200 Vichy
France

Exhibition from June 15 to September 1, 2013
Opening June 14 at 18:00

www.ville-vichy.fr

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