a meeting and book signing . GREGORY FORSTNER for the publication of his monograph.
a meeting and book signing . GREGORY FORSTNER for the publication of his monograph. Find out more about the artist Thursday 16 June 2017 e Across 224 pages presenting unpublished documents, an introductory text by Gilles Fuchs, an essay by Henry-Claude Cousseau and an interview between Caroline Hancock and Gregory Forstner, this monograph traces more than fifteen years of the artist's work between France, Germany and the United States. « There is an obvious autobiographical dimension in Forstner's work, one he invites us to examine. And it may well be that painting has ultimately been, for him, the best way to get the better of the novelistic turn of his life, to consider it not as one adventure among others but as a timely opportunity to make its singularity explicit and to comment on it for himself. » Excerpt from the text by Henry-Claude Cousseau « Your subjects are approached in the form of fables, parodies, parables and personal myths; in the background rise Jean de La Fontaine, William Hogarth, Art Spiegelman, Jörg Immendorff. Always present, starting from archetypes and stereotypes, popular culture blends with "great painting" and history in such a way that you manage to make it an intimate question. It is impossible not to make the link with the contemporaneity of the social, political and cultural realities of our societies. » Excerpt from the text by Gilles Fuchs « Spiegelman thus induces a guilty empathy in the reader. In my work, this empathy crystallised around the dog. The advantage of the dog-mask is that it offers an endless range of breeds, faces, and therefore possibilities for identification and, as Spiegelman so rightly says, of trapping the viewer with their own corrupt and flawed humanity. » Excerpt from the interview between Gregory Forstner and Caroline Hancock In partnership with the galerie Mathias Coullaud , Éditions Dilecta , the galerie Zink & Christophe Langlitz Art
