Garouste at the Center Pompidou is a long-awaited retrospective of a painter who has stubbornly made his way.
Born in 1946 in Paris, this handsome man recounted his life in
L'Intranquille
, the story of a life marked by war, anti-Semitism, family secrets, art, God, madness and love, published in 2009 and sold over 100,000 copies.
He is therefore a character.
Painter who never stops drawing, whatever the place, he is often in his paintings, burlesque or screaming form, seducer or wandering madman that the search for meaning haunts like a mystery.
The course of the retrospective in the form of a labyrinth is like a brain placed in space where the enigmas follow one another, more and more mystical.
Its curator, Sophie Duplaix, confronts the young Garouste with dark mannerism and visions of anguish, and the painter inhabited by the study of the Kabbalah with increasingly intense colors, with dislocated but living bodies.
Patron Corinne Ricard says that when she posed…
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