Nîmes, Carré d’Art- Musée d’art contemporain

Fifteen years after the Georges Pompidou Centre, the Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes is offering a new retrospective dedicated to the work of Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986). Comprising some one hundred works, some of which are seldom on public show, this exhibition is designed to advance a fresh interpretation of the artist’s work, based primarily on its rejection of linear perspective. The major series and works – from the Approche series (1965-1970) to Fertilité (1986) – will be on show. However, the chronology will be
completely mixed up, so as to afford multiple entry points.

Throughout his career, the artist came out as an outspoken advocate of contradiction, viewed in terms of constructive opposition rather than impossibility. This is a key feature of his practice and of his personality, where by he moves on from hyperrealist figuration to abstraction or fiction, from virtuosity to the daub, while exercising irreverence or homage, gravity and the most biting irony, excess or asceticism.

May 19 through September 19, 2010
Carré d’Art
Place de la Maison Carrée
30000 Nîmes
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