Background
Gerard Fromanger was born on September 6, 1939, in Jouars-Pontchartrain, France.
Fromanger received his formal training at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Gerard Fromanger was born on September 6, 1939, in Jouars-Pontchartrain, France.
Fromanger received his formal training at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He then followed evening classes, animated by Robert Lesbounit at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière.
Gerard was noticed by Cesar, who let him use his workshop and stayed by his side for two years. This relationship allowed Formanger to meet other artists like Jacques Prévert and the Giacometti brothers. He joined the narrative figuration movement and participated in creating the Nouvelle Histoire. In the 60's, he became a key figure of the artistic scene. Founder of the Beaux-Arts workshop in May 1968 and director of film-tracts in collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard, Gérard Fromanger, he became part of the world of the cinema world. Then he turned towards photography so a to transpose reality through images from his viewpoint.
His relationship with various artists, writers, philosophers and musicians are a great inspiration for him, without which his works wouldn't have evolved.
Gérard Fromanger continues to be on the forefront, his stained glass project for the Roman church Anzy-le-Duc, divided the opinion in 2015. He lives and works between Paris, France, and Siena, Italy.
Bastille Flux
2007Corps à corps, bleu
2006Drapeau américain (Le Rouge)
1968Drapeau française (Le Rouge)
1968En Chine, à Hu Xian
1974Existe
1976Jean-Paul Sartre
1976Le Boulevard des Italiens
1971Le Kiosque
1973Le Linceul n’a pas de poches
2002Le matin
1984Le peintre et son modèle
1974Marcel (portrait de Marcel Duchamp)
2007Michel Foucault
1976À mon seul désir
1979My Painting Drips
1966Rue de la mer
1974Souffle de Mai
1968Tirez-Tirez, Boulevard des Italiens
1971Violet de Mars
1972Quotes from others about the person
The art critic Michel Foucault described Fromanger’s body of work as “images taken as a film of the anonymous movement of what is happening.”