FABLES AND FANTASY
La danse et les pies - 2013 I looked right through my files to see when I last spoke about Gérard Garouste - and found nothing. Yet I have a very vivid memory of writing a chapter about this French painter. Perhaps I dreamt it.
In actual fact I was off to see « The Happy Show » at la Gaiété Lyrique and the Galerie Templon, one our most important, was on the way. I stopped in to have a look. This exhibition , « Unspeakable Tales » journeys into the world of myths and fables, a voyage the artist uses to evoke universal questions such as our relationship to time, other people and knowledge. He has already done this research in earlier painting such as Goethe’s Faust in 2011. This time around he has not chosen to confine himself to a single subject: paintings, gouaches and sculptures are given a dreamlike structure. It’s an auto portrait each time and I gather he is suggesting that knowledge is enriched by means of a two-tiered interpretation, based on what reason te