Garouste, an artist in purgatory?

It may sound strange but you have to go to New Delhi to see Gérard Garouste! At 73, the man who revealed the weight of his family history and his psychiatric problems in his moving tale L'Intranquille is the artist in honor of a masterful retrospective, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and the French Institute. Both worked " to respond to the desire of President Emmanuel Macron to develop cultural relations between our two countries by supporting this exhibition which is a first, " said Minister Franck Riester, during the opening on January 28. Even thousands of kilometers away, it is for Garouste, who founded the association La Source and was elected in 2017 to the Academy of Fine Arts, a long-awaited museum recognition, hand in hand, with its more faithful support, the merchant Daniel Templon who defines himself as " the fighter of a painting that France refuses to show!".

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