Gilles Aillaud. Political animal.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 29833 |
| Format | 24.5 X 29 |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782844269614 |
Asked about his choice to paint almost exclusively animals, Gilles Aillaud replied: "because I love them." Contemporary with the first Pop works, with their more or less distant fascination with consumer products and mass communication, the paintings of Gilles Aillaud (who died in 2005) have nothing exotic about them.
It was for lack of being a philosopher that Gilles Aillaud became a painter. However, rather than painting a philosophy, Gilles Aillaud applied himself to "painting philosophically." Letting people believe that he was depicting animals, it is our relationship with nature that stands out as his one and only true subject. His technical "humility" gives form to the dream of reconciliation, far from any project of "mastery" and "possession" of the world. The questions that our era poses to our relationship with the living demonstrate the importance of this long-awaited retrospective.
Asked about his choice to paint almost exclusively animals, Gilles Aillaud replied: "because I love them." Contemporary with the first Pop works, with their more or less distant fascination with consumer products and mass communication, the paintings of Gilles Aillaud (who died in 2005) have nothing exotic about them.
It was for lack of being a philosopher that Gilles Aillaud became a painter. However, rather than painting a philosophy, Gilles Aillaud applied himself to "painting philosophically." Letting people believe that he was depicting animals, it is our relationship with nature that stands out as his one and only true subject. His technical "humility" gives form to the dream of reconciliation, far from any project of "mastery" and "possession" of the world. The questions that our era poses to our relationship with the living demonstrate the importance of this long-awaited retrospective.