Gérard Schlosser Biography
Lille, France, 1931 -
An established French artist, Gerard Schlosser works in a figurative style. He studied gold and silver-work at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, and later painting at the School of Fine Arts.
From the beginning he was drawn to figurative painting: fragments of painted bodies with flat lines and dark outlines, reminiscent of work by Pop artists. In 1970 he turned to photography, like other French artists associated with the Narrative Figuration movement, to continually approximate reality in his paintings.
Schlosser has also experimented with photomontage and spreading sand on his canvas to create varied texture. He often works in series: lounging female bodies, landscapes, night scenes, etc. His titles are small banal phrases that refer to something supposed but not represented, accentuating his interest in the distance between the visible and the felt.
Selected Individual Exhibitions
2007 - PicassoMio.com.
1993 - Galerie Frederic Loeb, Paris, France.
1992 - Centre d?Art Contemporain, Lycee du Forez, Fleurus - Galerie Felix Labisse de l?Hippodrome, Douai
1991 - Galerie Loft, Paris, France. - Galerie Thierry Salvador, Paris, France. - Galerie Vincent, Saint Pierre, La Reunion
1989 - Galerie Mayer Schwarz, Los Angeles, USA
1987 - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France.
1985 - Galerie Ghana, Seoul, Korea
1984 - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France.
1983 - CAC, St-Cyr-l?Ecole, France.
1982 - Galerie Jacqueline Storme, Lille, France.
1981 - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France. - Centre Regional d?Art Contemporain, Chateauroux, France. - Centre d?Action Culturelle, Annecy, France. - Galerie Jean-Marie Cupillard, Grenoble, France. - Maison des Arts et Loisirs, Sochaux - Galerie ERCO, Paris, France.
1980 - Chateau de Ratilly - Centre d?Art Contemporain, Yonne
1977 - FIAC, Paris, France. - Centre d?Action Culturelle, Macon
1976 - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France.
1975 - Galerie d?Orsay, Cannes, France
1974 - Galerie Beaubourg, Barcelona, Spain
1973 - ARC, Musee d?Art Moderne, Paris, France.
1972 - Galerie Arte Verso, Genes - Galerie People, Turin, Italy - Galerie Soldano, Milan, Italy
1966 - Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, France.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1992 - Le Tondo, Auxerre, Abbaye St-Germain Avallon, Collegiale Saint-Lazare, France.
1990 - Le visage dans l?art contemporain, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France. - Aspect de la figuration dans les annees 60, Pernod, Creteil, France. - Aspect de l?art contemporain, Chalon-sur-Saone - La femme enfantin, Refectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse, France. - Biennale 91, Arras
1989 - Les paysages dans l?art contemporain, expositions Air Inter, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, France. - Rancillac, Schlosser, Taule, Galerie Michel Vidal, Paris, France. - Art Present, Arras - Gitanes, Espace Cardin, Paris, France. - Musee de Talchung, Taiwan, China
1988 - Salon des Artistes Decorateurs, France. - Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France. - Galerie Mayer Schwarz, Los Angeles, USA - Citroen XM, Paris, France.
1987 - La fin des annees 60-D?une constetation a l?autre, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France. - On dirait un paysage, Lannion, Bretagne
1986 - Triennale de Delhi, India - Figurations des annees 60- D?une constestation a l?autre, Abbaye St-Andre, Meymac
1985 - Du cote d?ailleurs, Refectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse, France. - Paysages, Centre Culturel de Keranden, Bretagne - Victor Hugo, l?ocean du lyrisme, Musee d?Art Contemporain, Nointel - FIAC, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France. - Regards contemporains, Armentieres
1984 - Contiguites, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. - Autoportraits, Galerie Municipale, France. - E.Manet Genevilliers, France. - Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France.
1983 - Une journee a la campagne, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France.
1980 - Corps, Musee des Beaux Arts, Tours, France. - Accrochage IV, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. - Un siecle de paysage en France, Tokyo, Nagoya, Japan. - Le defi a la peinture 1950-1980, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France. - Communication poesie, Theatre Andre Malraux, Rueil-Malmaison, France. - L?Amerique aux Independants, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France. - Presence contemporaine, Aix-en-Provence, Cloitre St-Louis, France. - 1950-1980, Tendances europeennes dans l?art moderne, Cent tableaux, Pierre - Cardin Building, New York, USA - Espace Pierre Cardin, Bruxelles - L?Arbre, Centre culturel de Boumogne-Billancourt, France. - De Matisse a nos jours, Musee de Lille, France. - Nouvelles Figurations en France, Seoul, Korea. - Une autre photographie, Maison des Arts, Creteil, France. - Salon de l?Automobile, Paris, France.
1979 - Galerie Sylvia Bourdon, Paris, France. - Centre Culturel de Genevilliers, France. - Tendance de l?Art en France 68/79, Musee d?Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, - Les Partis pris de G.Gassiot-Talabot, France. - Les uns et les autres, Musee des Beaux Arts, Lille, France. - L?Art vivant a Paris, Mairie du XVIIIeme, France.
1978 - Salon de Montrouge, France. - 20 ans de peinture, Eymoutiers
1977 - Mythologies Quotidiennes II, Musee d?Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France.
1975 - Selection française, exposition itinerante au Moyen-Orient
1973 - Galleria de la Salla di Cultura, Modene - Manipulation du Reel, Pujols - Aillaud-Fanti-Schloser, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France.
1972 - Studio Nino Soldano, Milan, Italy. - Centro Attivita Visive, Pala, Italy. - Plazzo del Diamanti, Ferrare, Italy.
1971 - La Figure dans la Peinture d?Aujourd?hui, Vitry-sur-Seine, France. - Centre Culturel d?Argenteuil, France. - Salon de Mai, Paris, France. - Intox, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France.
1970 - Aspects du racisme, Paris, France.
1969 - Biennale de Paris, Musee Galliera, Paris, France. - Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris, France.
1968 - ARC, Musee d?Art Moderne, Paris, France.
1967 - Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, France.
1966 - Galerie du Fleuve, Paris Le nouveau paysage. France.
1965 - Galerie Legendre, Paris, France. - Salon de La Jeune Peinture, Paris, France.
1964 - Galerie Espace, Paris, France.