Curator
Claude d'Anthenaise
Public opening
Wednesday 14 March,
from 18 p.m. to 21:30 p.m.,
entrée libre
Edited book
occasionally
of the exhibition
Zeugma
Galerie Templon editions, 2018.
88 pages
With texts by Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Hortense Lyon and an interview with Claude d'Anthenaise
Price: 25 €
Downloads
PRESS RELEASECOMMUNICATION
Communication manager for the Museum of Hunting and Nature
Ugo Deslandes
Phone. 01 53 01 92 40
u.deslandes@chassenature.org
RELATIONS WITH THE PRESS
Alambret Communication
Angelique Guillemain
angelique@alambret.com
Leila Neirijnck
leila@alambret.com
Tel. 01 48 87 70 77
www.alambret.com
Painter, engraver and sculptor, Gérard Garouste (born in 1946) often draws his inspiration from major reference texts. The Bible, the Talmud, or in a more literary register, Cervantes' Don Quixote, serve as an alibi for his complex plastic games where the audacity of shapes and colors is freed from the constraints of plausibility.
At the request of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Gérard Garouste took an interest in the myth of Diana and Actaeon, one of the most beautiful recounted by the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD. ) in his Metamorphoses: Actaeon, an insatiable hunter, having ventured into a wood in search of freshness, surprises the goddess Diana while she bathes naked with her attendants. He, a simple mortal, dares to look with desire on the divinity who takes revenge by casting a spell on him. Suddenly transformed into a deer, he becomes the prey of his own dogs who put him to death.
The myth which deals with gaze, desire and capture had everything to seduce Gérard Garouste. Also, not content to satisfy the order of the Museum of Hunting and Nature, it has multiplied studies, drawings and paintings on this theme. Singularly, the goddess Diana resembles the painter's wife, while the latter lends her features to the unfortunate hunter. For the exhibition, all the works thus produced are gathered around the painting painted for the museum. They resonate with the old works illustrating this theme in the permanent collections.
GAROUSTE SEASON IN PARIS
From March 15 to May 10, the Templon gallery will present Zeugma, a personal exhibition by Gérard Garouste bringing together some thirty unpublished works.
The artist will exhibit at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in Zeugma. The great funny work. His Indiennes, his Ellipses and La Dive BacBuc, monumental installations and theatrical devices, will be brought together for the first time from March 15 to April 15.
Useful information
62, rue des Archives 75003 Paris
The museum is open every day except Monday and public holidays,
11 a.m. to 18 p.m., 11 a.m. to 21:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Full price: 8 euros
Reduced price: 6 euros
PARTNERS
PARTNER SHOWS
PRESS PARTNERS
