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Gérard Garouste

Ellipse

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Tue 20 Nov 2001 → Sun 24 Feb 2002
Gérard Garouste 2001
Vue de l'exposition Gérard Garouste, Ellipse, 2001 © Gérard Garouste, Adagp, Paris, 2024 Photo © Adam Rzepka / Adagp, Paris, 2024

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

A structure made of canvas, with walls inhabited by animals taken from fables, Gérard Garouste’s installation, Ellipse, situates itself somewhere between a tent and the tiny houses one would find at the edge of 18th century gardens. This monumental work is the continuation of an approach to painting that began in the 1970s and that draws its inspiration from literary texts, mythology, or religion. 

Temporary and nomadic, the structure is made up of fifty-four panels that can be tied together and untied, not unlike the folding and unfolding storyline that animates it. These frameless canvasses are a continuation of the Indiennes paintings that the artist began in the late 80’s. These “Indians” are inspired by Genesis, Exodus, the Zohar, or Dante’s Inferno in order to offer a meditation on the human condition. Since then, Garouste has imagined transforming these immense paintings into an architectural structure that the spectator can truly experience. The result is Ellipse.

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