Some 140 works—paintings, lithographs, gouaches, sculptures, and installations—look back over the pictorial and literary odyssey of this creator without borders. An initiatory journey into the mysteries of the word and the triumph of the figure.
Gérard Garouste (b. 1946), Le Rabbin et le Nid d’oiseaux (The Rabbi and the Bird's Nest), 2013, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm/63.8 x 51.2 in, private collection.
Every retrospective makes up a narrative and retraces a path. The one taken by the French painter Gérard Garouste (b. 1946) for half a century is like a long poem, a hybrid epic, nourished by humanity’s great texts, whose meanings, codes and secrets are unearthed by the painter. A few words (“En chemin le passeur...”—“The go-between’s path”), highlighted on the first walls, invite visitors to follow him. Like a cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), increased by one line in each new section of the exhibition, a Surrealist…
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