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Dominique Gauthier, 6, Série Quadriparti Lecythes, 2009-2010
Exhibition from 14 june to 22 september 2019
Château de Jau
Exhibition from 13 june to 22 september 2019
Le Centre d’Art Contemporain Acentmetresducentredumonde - Perpignan
Exhibition from 15 june to 22 september 2019
Musée d’art Hyacinthe Rigaud - Perpignan
Exposition du 8 juin au 22 septembre 2019
Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix les Sables d’Olonne
Exhibition from 7 july to 22 september 2019
Saint-Jean-de-Buèges
Exhibition from 7 june to 16 june 2019
Galerie MR14 Paris
Exhibition from 4th to 25th july 2015
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from 9th to 27th october 2012
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from 6th to 22nd september 2012
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from november 29th 2008 to january 17th 2009
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from january 10th to february 28th 2004
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
From September 14th to November 10th 2001
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from december 14th 2000 to january 27th 2001
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from february 3rd to march 11th 2000
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Presentation of the book on 21st june 2019
Maison Quinta - Perpignan
Born in 1953 in Paris. Lives and works in Assas and Paris
Teaches at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris since October 2000
Dominique Gauthier or visual shock. This could be the hypothetical title of an essay on his work. Meandering and orderly, Gauthier’s work is impregnable, elusive. As soon as one assumes one can circumscribe it, it escapes from you, it slips away like oil that you try to hold in the closed palm of your hand. If you think you have made out a natural form, if a silhouette calls to mind a known object, if a spot of colour or the profile of a mass call to mind known spots and masses, that is not the way it is: they are chimeras, Morgan le Fay, mirages, which only Rorschach images can suggest, like the mystery that is within us. His work on first view, can repel, drive away, it is too big to be grasped or caged; it eludes fixed schemes and rules, and yet it is extraordinarily contemporary. Gauthier is already a third-millennium artist, polyglot and many-sided, who manages to bring together Europe and America, reason and sentiment, freedom and chains. Gauthier does not paint, he vomits paintings, he expels them from his studio like meteors in space; he catapults works into a third dimension, and beyond the representation of reality. It is an unknown space that he invites us to navigate, without weight, without age, without ties. It is a philosophical dimension which is still unknown. It is beyond our conscious knowledge; it is so deeply-rooted in our DNA that it frightens us, dismays us, terrifies us. It is a great mystery that attracts and repels. It is us ourselves.
Andrea Busto, Exhibition catalogue Super-Abstr-Action
Dominique Gauthier
Robert Bonaccorsi, Bernard Marcelis
2012
ISBN : 978-2-35864-041-1
La peinture de Dominique Gauthier ne se conçoit, n’existe et ne se découvre que dans l’excès. Une spécificité consubstantielle à sa démarche qui s’affirme aussi bien dans le simple constat de la dimension de la plupart des toiles, mais surtout dans l’ampleur, la luxuriance, le paroxysme même de cette œuvre qui se déploie dans un mouvement contradictoire, telle la manifestation d’une maîtrise aléatoire qui ne peut que susciter l’étonnement… plus d’infos
Publié avec le soutien de la Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, Communauté d’Agglomération, Toulon Provence Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer et la galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris.