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gilbert garcin - retrospective
at: espace jacques villeglé
from: now - until june 20, 2009 (free entry)

espace jacques villegle, (saint gratien, france) is currently holding a retrospective of gilbert garcin's work.
the french artist creates surreal collages / sculptures from paper, sand, string, rocks, pieces of a meccano
and other discarded objects which he then photographs. he almost always features a cut-out of himself in
his black and white images - 'confronting the meanings and absurdities of the human condition in stark,
dream-like landscapes and situations'.


the shortest path


the witness


the couple mechanism


le maitre du monde


self searching


change the world


nothing is perfect


diogenes or lucidity

the melancholy of garcin's poetic 'enactments' never overwhelms.  instead, an optimistic humour is
communicated throughout his series of allegorical works, a sense of playing in a psyche littered with
fragments from the past.  garcin himself has explained: 'in seventy years one has gathered ten
thousand souvenirs, one has a sort of attic in one's head.  piled-up things, which end up suddenly
re-emerging.'

the free exhibition will end on june 20th - more information can be found here.