Gerard Garouste

The exhibition catalogue is the first of its kind and covers many artistic fields: painting, sculpture, furniture, design, architecture and photography, as well as numerous references to literature, theatre, the press, cinema and music, thanks to contributions from specialists in their respective fields. Figurative and surrealist, Gerard Garouste explores the relationship with the unconscious and the sacred, and his works recall El Greco, Tintoretto or Chagall. Fascinated by existential questions about origin, time and transmission, Gerard Garouste's work stems from associations of ideas. As disturbing as they are fascinating, his paintings are full of fantastic animals and historical figures. His sources of inspiration emanate from the Bible as much as from the masterpieces of popular culture and literature by authors such as Cervantes and Rabelais. Garouste's work is not intended to be seductive, it relentlessly questions and upsets certainties. The exhibition at the Center Pompidou, a true consecration of the artist's career, is designed as a complete retrospective and aims to capture the richness of the unclassifiable work of Gerard Garouste, "the intranquille".