Gerard Titus-carmel Biography
Gérard Titus-Carmel (1942 - ) quickly developed an interest in modern art and studied drawing and printmaking at the Boulle School, a professional school for furniture and design, from 1958 to 1962. The artist at the time often drew inspiration from objects "kitsch" for his paintings, which is why they are so unique and enigmatic.
Titus-Carmel has taken part in various international group exhibitions in France and abroad since 1964 (Paris Biennial, Salons of Elder and Youth of Today, Salon of Mai, Interferences, Expo Osaka in 1982, etc.). Since 1967, he has held around 200 solo exhibitions of his work, most of them in France (Paris in particular, but also Tokyo, New York, etc.).
In the early 1970s, the artist examined how the object degraded over time; even then the active or mental participation of the spectator was sought, an element that has always characterized the artist's work. Since working on the definition of "places", Titus Carmel has continued to take a more open part in the world of conceptual art in general and, more specifically, within the "Land Art" movement. In the mid-1980s, Titus-Carmel resumed painting abstractly.
Painter, engraver, designer, creator of environments; lives and works in Oulchy-le Château (Aisne).
