Gérard Garouste
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Marcilly-sur-Eure
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in the department of Eure, where he founded an educational and social action group to help children with art called La Source.
Biography
Gérard Garouste was born in Paris. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1965 to 1972 in the atelier of Gustave SingierGustave Singier
Gustave Singier was a Belgian non-figurative painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai. He is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery....
. It was there he discovered Duchamp. Around this time, he created several works of scenography
Scenography
-Usage:Whilst also aligned with the professional practice of the scenographer, it is important to distinguish the individual elements that comprise the 'design' of a performance event from the term 'scenography' which is as an artistic perspective concerning the visual, experiential and spatial...
for his friend, author and director Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes is a French actor, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film maker. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.- Awards :* 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award...
, notably for the productions of Il faut que le Sycomore coule and Jacky parady. In 1977, he presented at the Palace
Le Palace (Paris)
Le Palace is a Paris theatre located at 8, rue du Faubourg-Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement. It is best known for its years as a nightclub where fashion, music, and underground culture intersected in a mythical blend....
theater Le Classique et l'Indien, a show he wrote, directed, and decorated for. He would stay with the Palace until 1982 as a scenographer and painter.
In 1980, he had his first art show at the Durand-Dessert gallery, showing figurative, mythological, and allegorical paintings. This show brought him national recognition, and then, international. His first international show took place in New York
New York
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in 1982 at the Holly Solomon Gallery. Others followed, such as those at the Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli
Leo Castelli was an American art dealer. He was best known to the public as an art dealer whose gallery showcased cutting edge Contemporary art for five decades...
Gallery in New York and in Sperone
Sperone
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, Italy
Italy
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. He was the only French artist to be invited to the Zeitgeist at Berlin. Institutional recognition came in 1987, at the CAPC of Bordeaux (Centre d'arts plastiques contemporains de Bordeaux), where he presented a combination of oils on canvas and acrylics on homespun, and then at the Fondation Cartier
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, often known simply as the Fondation Cartier, is a contemporary art museum located at 261 boulevard Raspail in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital, Paris...
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Garouste has executed works and decorations for various endeavors: paintings for the Élysée Palace
Élysée Palace
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, sculptures for Évry Cathedral
Évry Cathedral
Évry Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the new town of Évry in France.The Diocese of Corbeil or Corbeil-Essonnes was created in 1966, and the parish church of Saint-Spire was elevated to the status of the bishop's seat as Corbeil Cathedral, but neither it nor any other of the existing...
, the ceiling of the theater at Namur
Namur (city)
Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....
, and for the church of Notre-Dame de Talant, stained glass. In 1989, he did the curtain for the Théâtre du Châtelet
Théâtre du Châtelet
The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and...
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An important step for Garouste was the founding in 1991 of the association The Source, which sets itself the task of helping culturally underprivileged young people to achieve personal development through artistic expression.
He received an order in 1996 for a monumental work for the National Library of France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...
mixing painting and wrought iron. Sculpture and engraving were attracting him more and more, as well as illustration for all sorts of writings, from Don Quixote to the Haggadah
Haggadah of Pesach
The Haggadah is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the Scriptural commandment to each Jew to "tell your son" of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah...
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In 2001, he presented at the Fondation Cartier Ellipse, an arrangement of canvasses mounted on a construction of his own design.
Since 2001, he has been represented by the Daniel Templon
Daniel Templon
Daniel Templon is a French art contemporary and modern art dealer born in 1945. He founded in 1972, the bilingual contemporary art magazine art press with art critic and erotic biographer Catherine Millet.- Biography :...
Gallery.
Visual arts
- La Mouche
- Ellipse at the Fondation Cartier
- Dante (195x130 cm)
- L'Antipode, oil on canvas (130x90 cm)
Principal individual shows
- 1988 : Gérard Garouste at the Musée national d'art moderneMusée National d'Art ModerneThe Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...
in Paris - 2001 : Ellipse at the Fondation Cartier
- 2002 : Kézive ou la ville mensonge, Daniel Templon Gallery
- 2003 : Saintes ellipses at the Chapelle de la Salpêtrière
- 2004 : Portraits, Galerie Daniel Templon
- 2005 : La Coupole at the Panthéon
- 2006 : L'Anesse et la Figue, Daniel Templon Gallery
- 2008 : La Bourgogne, la famille et l'eau tiède, Daniel Templon Gallery