Alain Gruger
1938 (Bordeaux)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Born in Bordeaux in 1938, Alain Gruger's post-graduate studies led him to become a research professor in the Chemistry-Physics Department of the Pierre et Marie Curie University. In 1961, Alain Gruger arrived in Paris, where he met the surrealist painter Jorge Camacho. The two men forged a close friendship around their shared passion for alchemy, until the Cuban painter's death in 2011. This friendship was to be the cradle of Alain Gruger's artistic production, and he began drawing in 1967. Drawing became an existential necessity for Alain Gruger, who set it in motion. It is through the repetition of signs such as skulls, fish and birds, interwoven and drawn spontaneously, that Alains Gruger's compositions develop. Alain Gruger's work can be divided into three periods: 1967 to 1977, 1986 to 2013 and 2014 to the present. A cohesion encompasses the works produced between these different periods, with variations in the mediums borrowed and the recurrence of certain motifs. In December 2019, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker is devoting an exhibition to him, featuring some twenty of his drawings on paper produced between 1957 and 2019.
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Born in Bordeaux in 1938, Alain Gruger's post-graduate studies led him to become a research professor in the Chemistry-Physics Department of the Pierre et Marie Curie University. In 1961, Alain Gruger arrived in Paris, where he met the surrealist painter Jorge Camacho. The two men forged a close friendship around their shared passion for alchemy, until the Cuban painter's death in 2011. This friendship was to be the cradle of Alain Gruger's artistic production, and he began drawing in 1967. Drawing became an existential necessity for Alain Gruger, who set it in motion. It is through the repetition of signs such as skulls, fish and birds, interwoven and drawn spontaneously, that Alains Gruger's compositions develop. Alain Gruger's work can be divided into three periods: 1967 to 1977, 1986 to 2013 and 2014 to the present. A cohesion encompasses the works produced between these different periods, with variations in the mediums borrowed and the recurrence of certain motifs. In December 2019, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker is devoting an exhibition to him, featuring some twenty of his drawings on paper produced between 1957 and 2019.
Artist's exhibitions
Jorge Camacho – Torgia – Alain Gruger. Les Liaisons surréalistes
18/01/2024 - 20/04/2024(Paris) Espace Art Absolument