Stone Surrounded by Falls: Writings and Interviews on Painting, Politics, and Theatre (1953-1998).

Zoo painter, member of the Figuration Narrative movement, symbolic murderer of Marcel Duchamp, president of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture from 1965 to 1969, theater designer, philosopher, poet, playwright: the categories that describe Gilles Aillaud's work are also what prevent us from accessing it. Freeing oneself from them requires less effort than suspense before his work. His paintings, but also his writings, on the opposition between liberalism and socialism, on theater and its emancipatory aim, on painting and its intention to reestablish a living relationship with things, themselves produce this arrest.