Gilles Aillaud
Gilles Aillaud [ ʒil a'jo ː ] ( born June 5, 1928 in Paris, † March 24, 2005 ) was a French painter, printmaker, stage designer and author. He was one of the major representatives of the Narrative Figuration.
Life
The son of French architect Émile Aillaud began to paint during his school days, but initially studied philosophy. In 1949 he took up painting again. Of importance, the encounter with the Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyo was ( b. 1937 ) and the Italian painter Antonio Recalcati (* 1938), with whom he 's joint Vivre et laisser mourir ou La fin tragique de Marcel Duchamp ( " Live and Let Die in 1965 or The tragic end of Marcel Duchamp " ) created. In the same year Ailllaud Gilles took over the chairmanship of the Salon de la jeune peinture. As part of the student uprisings of May 1968, he expressed his former political radicalism through participation in exhibitions " anti-authoritarian art" and performances of anti-American plays. His first major international retrospective was in 1971 at the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
From the year 1974 unfolded Aillaud, first in collaboration with Eduardo Arroyo, an extensive activity in the field of stage design. In this area, he worked with theater directors such as Jean Jourdheuil, Klaus Michael Grueber, Luc Bondy and Giorgio Strehler. Caused a stir in 1974 with Arroyo designed scenery for the staged by Gruber at the Berlin Schaubühne place Bacchae by Euripides. In the 30 years up to his death, Aillaud operated on many important stages in Europe. His last work as a stage designer was created in 2005 for the Vienna Festival.
Work
The preferred motifs Aillauds are caged animals in the zoo or at the farm and empty beach landscapes. His paintings and prints are characterized by their flawless coolness and the way with which they hold the viewer simultaneously by means of perspective in the work into it, and by the overall composition of the work out.