Gérard Garouste
The artist
Born in 1946 in Paris, Gérard Garouste lives and works in Paris and Normandy. He is one of the leading figures in French art. As both painter and sculptor, he is obsessed by the origins of our culture, myths and the legacy left us by the old masters. His own life is the springboard for his work on ‘dismantling images and words’ and his fascination with the questions of origins, time and transmission. His paintings are born of associations of ideas. Now unsettling, now joyful, they teem with animals, some of them fantastical, and a cast of different characters. His sources range from the Bible to popular culture and literary greats, from Cervantes to Rabelais.
Exhibitions
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Correspondances (Gérard Garouste – Marc-Alain Ouaknin)
March 25 - July 17, 2021
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Zeugma
March 15 - May 12, 2018
Paris - Beaubourg -
Contes ineffables
January 11 - February 26, 2014
Paris - Beaubourg -
Walpurgisnachtstraum
September 8 > October 29, 2011
Paris - Beaubourg -
La Bourgogne, la famille et l'eau tiède
January 12 > February 26, 2008
Paris - Beaubourg -
L’Anesse et la figue
January 28 - February 18, 2006
Paris - Beaubourg -
Portraits
March 6 - April 30, 2004
Paris - Beaubourg -
Késive, la ville mensonge
January 24 > March 2, 2002
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1946 in Paris, France |
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| Residence | He lives and works in Marcilly-sur-Eure, France |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2022 | Gérard Garouste, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
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| 2021 | Gérard Garouste, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2020 | Gérard Garouste : The Other Side, National Gallery of Modern Art of New Delhi, New Delhi, India |
| 2019 | Gérard Garouste, Centre des arts Palais Aicha Fahmy, Cairo, Egypt Gérard Garouste et l’École des Prophètes, Espace des droits de l'homme, Mairie du Chambon-sur-Lignon, Chambon-sur-Lignon, France |
| 2018 | Diane et Actéon, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France Zeugma, le grand œuvre drolatique, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France Zeugma, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Les Garouste, complot de famille, Palais idéal du Facteur Cheval, Château de Hauterives, France |
| 2016 | À la croisée des chemins, BAM, Mons, Belgium Sèvres Outdoor, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, France |
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COLLECTIONS (SÉLECTION)
| Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, France | |
| Hôtel de Ville, Mons, Belgique | |
| Théâtre Royal, Namur, Belgique | |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France | |
| L’église Notre-Dame, Talant, France | |
| Cathédrale d’Évry, France | |
| Palais de Justice de Lyon, France |
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THÉÂTRE
| 2008 | Le Classique et l’Indien, spectacle de Gérard Garouste et Joël Calmettes ; avec Gérard Garouste et Denis Lavant, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris, France |
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| 1978 | Le Classique et l’Indien, spectacle de Gérard Garouste, Festival Transthéâtre Libération, Paris, France |
FILM
| 2018 | Gérard Garouste, En chemin, réalisé par Vivien Desouches, produit par André Djaoui, Tikkun Productions |
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| 2013 | Gérard Garouste, Retour aux sources, réalisé par Joël Calmettes – Chloé Productions – Collection Empreintes – France 5 |
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROCUREMENTS
| 2013 | Sculpture Le Défi du Soleil, Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, 1984-2013, France |
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| 2010 | Ensemble de Sculptures monumentales en bronze et de fresques en céramique, 23, rue de l’Université, Paris VIIème (Groupe Carlyle), France |
| 2006 | Tapisserie Le murez et l’araignée, Aubusson, France Sculptures à l’Hôtel de ville de Mons, Belgium |
| 2000 | Frise dans la salle des mariages de l’hôtel de ville de Mons, Belgium |
| 1999 | Plafond du foyer du Théâtre royal de Namur, Belgium |
| 1996 | Installation de peinture et fer forgé pour la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France |
| 1995 | Vitraux de l’église Notre-Dame de Talant, en Bourgogne, France Sculpture Vierge à l’Enfant pour la cathédrale d’Evry, France |
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Press
Architectural Digest.in - février 2020
The Other Side, a special retrospective on the revered French artist
Uma Nair
The Art Newspaper Daily - octobre 2019
Indiscrétion : Gérard Garouste au Centre Pompidou.. et à Delhi
Alexandre Crochet
Le Quotidien de l'Art, l'Hebdo - mars 2018
L'esprit se tait, enfin libre, pour galoper
Lionel Sabatté
Le Journal des Arts - janvier 2018
Le peintre a été élu à l'Académie des beaux-arts
Stéphane Renault
Le Figaro.fr - décembre 2017
Le peintre Gérard Garouste succède à Georges Mathieu à l'Académie des beaux-arts
News
Gérard Garouste
CAIRO BIENNALE – GROUP SHOW
CENTER OF ART - AICHA FAHMY PALACE, CAIRO, EGYPTFrom 10/06/2019 to 10/08/2019
Cairo Biennale, Center of Art, Aicha Fahmy Palace, Gérard Garouste guest of honour
Gérard Garouste
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
ART EATS ART
Museum Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
In the framework of the Gastronomic Year in Provence–MPG 2019, the Regards de Provence Museum is showcasing « L’Art Mange l’Art” et “De la table au tableau”, two exhibitions that bring together works of artists from the XIX to XXIst century on the theme of food, its pleasures and the art of the table.
Gérard Garouste
ZEUGMA. LE GRAND OEUVRE DROLATIQUE – SOLO SHOW
BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE From 15/03/2018 to 15/04/2018
Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
From March 15 to April 15, Gérard Garouste will be investing the outstanding glass-in atrium of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a series of monumental installations and theatrical devices. Fake tapestries, labyrinths, oculi, anamorphoses will invite the visitor to enter this Grand Oeuvre Drolatique, mixing hidden significations and fantasies, references to the sacred and religious texts as well as evocations of Rabelais and Dante.
The exhibition unveils a more confidential aspect of the artist’s work through 4 large installations created in between 1987 and 2003 : Les Indiennes, La Dive Bacbuc, Ellipse et Les Saintes Ellipses. Never reunited before, they will be shown for the first time in Paris in 15 years.
Gérard Garouste
DIANE ET ACTAEON – SOLO SHOW
MUSEE DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA NATURE, PARIS, FRANCE From 13/03/2018 to 01/07/2018
Gérard Garouste, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, is marking spring 2018 with three new exhibitions in Paris: at Galerie Templon, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. For his exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (March 13 – July 1), Gérard Garouste has taken a close interest in the myth of Diana and Actaeon, one of the most beautiful tales recounted by the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) in his Metamorphoses: The myth, that examines perception, desire and capture, offered the perfect subject for Gérard Garouste. The result, going far beyond simply fulfilling a first 2015 commission awarded by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, was a series of studies, drawings and canvasses all based on the theme ; providing an echo of older works illustrating the same theme and forming part of the permanent collections.
Gérard Garouste
LES GAROUSTE, COMPLOT DE FAMILLE – SOLO SHOW
CHATEAU DE HAUTERIVES, DROME, FRANCEFrom 5/06/2017 to 9/31/2017
This is a very singular exhibition which will be presented this summer at the Hauterives Palace / Drôme. Singular in two ways. For the first time, Gérard Garouste – emblematic figure of French painting – and his wife, Elizabeth Garouste – designer – exhibit together. For the first time, this is their shared passion for « art brut » (outsider art) that get them together, right here where Facteur Cheval erected his famous Ideal Palace, considered as the international reference of « art brut ». Quite naturally, the extravagant creations of David Rochline – Elizabeth’s brother, deceased in 2015, found their place in this exciting family venture, like the ones of children from La Source association, henceforth at the heart of their artistic and civic concerns.
Gérard Garouste
GOLEM! – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE DU JUDAISME, PARIS, FRANCE From 3/8/2017 to 7/16/2017
With 136 works from 28 institutions and private lender, this exhibiton at the MAHJ explores the rich future of the Golem’s figure in the visual arts, through a journey mixing painting, drawing, photography, theatre, cinema, literature, comic and video games. From the presentation of a remarkable Sefer Yetsirah (“Book of Creation”) printed in Mantua in 1612 to the movie clip from Terminator 2, through works of Boris Aronson, Christian Boltanski, Gérard Garouste, Antony Gormley, Philip Guston, Amos Gitaï, R.B. Kitaj or Anselm Kiefer, the exhibition reveals how this medieval Jewish legend still effects today in a globalized imaginary world.
Gérard Garouste
À LA CROISéE DES SOURCES – SOLO SHOW
BEAUX-ARTS MONS, MONS, FRANCE From 9/24/2016 to 1/29/2017
The Museum of Fine Arts in Mons (BAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to French painter Gérard Garouste, gathering over 80 works, some of them monumental in size. This selection will give an original overview of his entire career. The exhibition was mainly and for the first time conceived following the framework of Cervantes novel Don Quixote . Salle Saint-Georges – at a stone’s throw from BAM – will host an installation specially designed by Garouste. It invites visitors to lose themselves among the twists and turns of a labyrinth created out of around 35 monumental canvases – a unique physical and visual experience. This exhibition, curated by Bernard Marcelis and Xavier Roland, BAM’s Director, will also exclusively reveal two of his sketch books – a rare opportunity that allows us to enter the private world of his artistic process. Press visit on Friday, September 23, 2016, 11 a.m. Opening on Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Gérard Garouste
SèVRES OUTDOORS – GROUP SHOW
SEVRES OUTDOORS, CITE DE LA CERAMIQUE, SEVRES, FRANCEFrom 06/01/2016 to 10/24 2016
Gerard Garouste participates in the third edition of Sevres Outdoors, organized by the Cité de la ceramique. About thirty outdoor and monumental artworks are shown, some even for the first time, in the garden of the Cité.
