CLAUDE GARANJOUD

VERY BEAUTIFUL WORK OF THE ARTIST. IN A PERFECT STATE. HST DATE 67 92X73CM

Claude Garanjoud – 1926-2005 – carried out demanding work in painting, both deeply thoughtful and with a sensitivity to color, gesture and poem which makes him an important and original figure in the French abstraction movement. .
First nourished by the presence of the mountain – snow, ice and skies of his native Alps – he goes beyond the form coming from reality to explore a new universe made of signs, transparencies and depths.
A constant traveler between abstraction and mysticism, he sees in painting a place for the unspeakable. A fervent reader of poetry, he creates books in which his paintings, collages or inks accompany the words of René Char, Saint-John Perse, François Cheng, Lorand Gaspar, or Adonis. Attentive to oriental thought, knowledgeable music lover, great admirer of Hölderlin and Rainer Maria Rilke, Claude Garanjoud combines the depth of thought with the incandescence of color and the authority of the line

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1954GRENOBLE
Repellin-Perriot Gallery.1956PARIS
Galerie St Placide.1957GRENOBLE
Guilmin Gallery/Monin Gallery.1958LONDON
Piccadilly Gallery.
AIX EN PROVENCE
Sources Gallery.
PARIS
Chardin Gallery.
GRENOBLE
Guilmin Gallery/Monin Gallery.1959LONDON
Piccadilly Gallery.1960PARIS
Simone Badinier Gallery.
GRENOBLE
Guilmin Gallery.1961LONDON
Piccadilly Gallery.
GRENOBLE
Guilmin Gallery.1962PARIS
Simone Badinier Gallery.
LONDON
Piccadilly Gallery.1963SAINT PAUL DE VENCE
Jacques Martin Gallery.1970GRENOBLE
Guilmin Gallery.
GRENOBLE
Maison de la Culture: “100 recent works”. 1974 GRENOBLE
Grand Hotel.1975LYON
Bellecour/Books.1976GRENOBLE
Jacques Pugniet/Bijougalerie.1978GRENOBLE
Blue Gallery.1980VOIRON
Town Hall.1980GRENOBLE
J.Y.Noblet Gallery.
LYON
Galerie l’Ollave.1982GRENOBLE
J.M.Cupillard Gallery.
J.C.David Gallery.1983GRENOBLE
Museum: “Blanc” with the participation of the Michel Hallet-Éghayan Company.1984MONTBÉLIARD
Cultural action center.
PARIS
F.I.A.C. J.M.Cupillard Gallery.
LYON
“The Exploded Ollave”: Galerie le Pantographe.1985AIX EN PROVENCE
Saint-John Perse Foundation:
“Neiges/Garanjoud/Genesis of a book”.1986LYON
Galerie l’Ollave.
GRENOBLE
University bookstore.1987AVIGNON
Poetry in a Garden.
LYON
Printing Museum.
GRENOBLE
J.M.Cupillard Gallery.1989GRENOBLE/LA TRONCHE
Municipal Study Library.
Hébert Museum. GRENOBLE
Galerie Varachaud.1990ISLE SUR LA SORGUE
Archipelago.1991PARIS
Lacourière Frélaut Gallery.
ISLE SUR LA SORGUE
Archipelago.1994GRENOBLE
Munari Bookstore.
PARIS
Sorbonne/Grand Salon: “a painter at the biennial of education and training”. LAGNES
The old wash house.
PARIS
Gallery Askéo/Christian Forestier.1995PARIS
La Teinturerie, Gallery.
PARIS
“Letters and Images” bookstore.
AIX EN PROVENCE
City of the Book.
AIX EN PROVENCE
Saint-John Perse Foundation.
AIX EN PROVENCE
Librairie du Palais.1997GRENOBLE
Gallery “Le Bateau-Lavoir”.
PARIS
Askéo/Christian Forestier Gallery.
MONTPELLIER
Wimmer Gallery.1999PARIS
The Dyeing Factory, Gallery.2000AVIGNON
J.E.Bernard Gallery: “works on paper”.
PARIS
Atelier Lacourière Frélaut: engravings, monotypes.2001GRENOBLE
Municipal Study Library: “Books with poets”.2002VERS/PONT DU GARD
Place Neuve Gallery: recent works.2003AVIGNON
Calvet Museum: recent works.
MONTPELLIER
Galerie St Côme: various works.
AVIGNON
Galerie Marguerite Bühler: various works.2004MÖNCHENGLADBACH BIS.
Zentrum für offene Kulturarbeit:
Claude Garanjoud/Sophie Kreidt: the Circle.2005AVIGNON/ILE PIOT Pollux Art: works on paper, boxes.
TOKYO
MMG Gallery: recent works.
AIX EN PROVENCE
Saint-John Perse Foundation: White Lands2006LA MURE
Matheysin Museum2007VILLENEUVE LES AVIGNON
Chartreuse2010AIX EN PROVENCE
Tapestry Museum
Saint John Perse Foundation
Chateauneuf le Rouge2011BONN
Robert Schuman Institute
VILLENEUVE LES AVIGNON
Chartreuse
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1959 MAINZ/KOBLENCE/LUDWIGSHAFFEN.
“Contemporary French art”.1960PARIS
Simone Badinier Gallery:
“Holiday drawings”.1961PARIS
Galerie Simone Badinier.1963PARIS/NEW-YORK
National Museum of Modern Art and Alliance Française in the United States “20 young painters from the School of Paris”.
PARIS
Simone Badinier Gallery.1966NICE
Palais de la Méditerranée: “20 years of Young Mediterranean Painting and Sculpture”.1968PARIS
Galerie de France: Manus presse/Stuttgart.
SCHAFFHOUSE
All Saints Museum:
Manus press/Stuttgart.1969SIERRE
“53 Rhone painters of today”.1970FRANKFURT
Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst: Manus Presse/Stuttgart.1972PARIS
Galerie Daniel Gervis.1973GRENOBLE
House of Culture.1977LACOUX
Contemporary Art Center: “Lyrical Paintings”.1978GRENOBLE
Maison de la Culture: “The space of time”: the abstraction of the 1950s in France.1980PARIS
Gallery Regards.
PARIS
Scabies

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