Gérard Garouste (1946)
Camille
1996-1998 | Oil on canvas | 188 x 151 cm
A multiple artist, Garouste first established himself as a post-modern painter, but he is also a sculptor, photographer, and decorator. His figurative work is driven by the need to reinvest the forgotten forms of history.
His painting is marked by a tormented figuration, drawing its sources from the great myths and legends that are the foundation of our civilisation, whether they be profane or religious. As a spectator of these (and of the traumas of his childhood), he frequently appears in his paintings in the form of self-portraits of a man in crisis, seemingly casting an incredulous eye on his world.
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