Communic’Art has conceived and realized the book/catalogue for Gérard Garouste’s exhibition entitled La Bourgogne, le famille et l’eau tiède presented at Galerie Templon from January 12 until February 26, 2008.

Obsessed with the origins of our culture and the heritage of our ancestors, Gérard Garouste abandons for the first time the key texts of Western History to look at his own story without complacency.

In his new exhibition, Garouste investigates three parts of his life: the lost paradise of his childhood in Burgundy, the hell that represents his family and, his search, which could very well be impossible, of “lukewarm water”, namely a kind of moderation or wisdom.

He presents, without any reserve and in a very frontal way, some striking episodes of his life: family secrets, childhood’s traumas, memories of insanity crisis and of his confinment in mental hospitals.

Elegant, interesting and largely illustrated, the book/catalog brings to light the richness of Gérard Garouste’s works. Facing each painting are words by the artist gathered by Hortense Lyon. This mirror play, the reader is invited in the artist’s most intimate story.

Born in 1946, Gérard Garouste is one of the major figures of French painting today. From the 1980s, he exhibited his work all over the world and entered numerous prestigious public collections.

Gérard Garouste will perform from January 29 until February 24th, 2008 at the Théâtre du Rond Point, with Denis Lavant, in a show he wrote. Le Classique et l’Indien is constructed as the commentary of a blind critic on the absence of a painting, the Dive Bacbuc which his hidden in the Quart Livre by Rabelais.

This catalogue is distributed by our partner PARIS MUSÉES in 300 bookstores in France, including 50 specialized bookstores with an Art section. The catalogue will be listed in over forty (40) professional databases, including Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom as well as in online bookstores. The catalogue will also be distributed in Europe, North America and Eastern Europe.