After spending last spring in Normandy, this season Bernard Plossu will be very present in the south of France (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille) with two projects and two major exhibitions, and two publications available from Éditions Images en Manœuvres.

In Aix-en-Provence, the Musée Granet will present until December 16, 2012, La Montagne blanche, featuring 107 prints taken by Bernard Plossu since 1991 of the legendary Mon Sainte-Victoire, so dear to Cézanne. The exhibition is a gift from the Fondation Almayuda and the photographer, intended to enrich the museum’s collection.

An outdoorsman, Plossu has taken several trips over years to the mountain, photographing it each time from a different perspective.

“When my friends convinced me to bring my pictures of Sainte-Victoire together, I discovered a series white with light, because hiking up there is an experience of absolute light. That’s where I got the idea to call this series La montagne blanche.”

Marseille Plossu is an exhibition on display until December 16, 2012, at the Centre de la Vieille Charité, in Marseille. It present 230 thirty prints ranging from thumbnails to large format—but not too large, says Plossu—taken in and around Marseille at the turn of the century, from 1991 to 2011. Like much of the photographer’s work, these images were taken from series that were originally commissioned. The subjects are very ‘à la Plossu,’ unconventional and free from stereotypes. They are blurred, in silhouette, cut-out geometric shapes as seen from the window of a moving vehicle, capturing an instant.

Another exhibition will be on display through December 15, 2012, at the Non-Maison, also in Aix-en-Provence, which presents a series of hiking montages previously seen at the Centre Pompidou under the title Les nouveaux promeneurs solitaires.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Exhibitions :
Marseille Plossu
Until December 16th, 2012
Centre de la Vieille Charité
+33 (0) 491 14 59 18

La montagne Blanche
Until December 16th, 2012
Musée Granet
Place Saint Jean de Malte
13100 Aix-en-Provence - France
Tuesday - Sunday 12am - 6pm
+33 (0) 442 52 88 32

Montag(n)es
Until December 15th, 2012
La Non-Maison
22 rue Pavillon
13100 Aix-en-Provence
lanonmaison@gmail.com
Tuesday - Sunday 12am - 6pm

Publications :
La montagne Blanche
Randonnées sur la Sainte-Victoire
Photographs by Bernard Plossu
Texts by Jean Arrouye
and interview with Bruno Ely
Edition by Musée Granet - Communauté du Pays d’Aix and Images en Manœuvres Editions
16,5 x 20 cm 144 pages
107 photographs

Marseille Plossu
Au tournant du siècle 1991-2011
Photographs by Bernard Plossu
Texts by Régine Detienne, Patrick Sainton, Alain Reinaudo, Liliane Giraudon, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Jean-Jacques Viton
Éditions Images en Manœuvres
16,5 x 20 cm 256 pages
300 photographs