05.08.2025-07.12.2025
FROM GRAPES TO STARS
Patrick Desgraupes's photography
Galerie Patrick Gutknecht is delighted to present its new exhibition “From Grapes to Stars”, featuring ten photographs by Patrick Desgraupes depicting fermenting vats of wine seen from above, in dialogue with selected pieces of decorative art from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Every year, photographer Patrick Desgraupes works with France's most prestigious châteaux and wine estates in the three to four weeks following the harvest.
His work focuses on the concept of transformation, the transformation of grapes into wine, an omnipresent principle in the universe. By plunging his gaze into the organic, the photographer shows how Man, at the heart of this transformation, reveals its cosmic dimension. In this visual metaphor, where vats of wine strangely resemble planets made, like us, of nitrogen, calcium and iron, he transforms himself into “stardust” to touch, for an instant, the origin of life.
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Patrick DESGRAUPES
Château de Nalys
Châteauneuf du Pape - Domaine Guigal
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