Memory, remembrance, disappearance, oblivion: the vegetal and dreamlike universe of Gérard Titus-Carmel is crossed by the questioning of passing time, questions the space occupied and “the way to be in the world.” The 160 drawings, paintings and illustrated books, which are currently on display at the Paul-Valéry museum, retrace nearly three decades of work (1995 – 2022), like an artistic biography. The visit is structured around nine chronological series, between shades of black and gray in charcoal, colored and fragmented acrylics, superimposed tissue papers, sketches and travel notes.
Painter, draftsman, engraver, but also writer and poet, Gérard Titus-Carmel takes an attentive look at artistic practice, sensitive to the creative gesture, “to how it takes shape. To make a line, sometimes I bend down, I go up, I accompany this gesture entirely” he marvels.
