At the crossroads of various artistic disciplines, the exhibition “Elizabeth & Gérard Garouste, L’art à La Source” offers an unprecedented dialogue between the works of this exceptional creative couple. Through a multi-faceted approach that draws on design, sculpture, drawing, engraving and, of course, painting, the meeting of the two artists probes a fertile crucible, where two creative processes unfold in a complex and fascinating exchange. An exhibition in dialogue with the works of the children of La Source Garouste and associated artists.

How does married life contribute to the development of individuality? How is the work constructed, and what subjective influence does the other have on the artist’s research? As pioneers of freedom and creators of “curiosities”, Elizabeth and Gérard Garouste place the absence of lukewarmness at the heart of their visual language, testing our habits and evoking the unusual. In a contemporary vision nourished by a strange beauty at the frontier between the known and the poetic imaginary, the designer’s work dialogues with that of the painter in the search for a familiar and disconcerting aesthetic.

Bringing together over a hundred works from private and public collections, the exhibition offers a plunge into the unclassifiable universe of two inspired creators. Taking place simultaneously at the Palais des Arts et du Festival and at the villa Les Roches Brunes, the project aims to rediscover the joyful cohabitation of the two artists’ heterogeneous works, in the image of their Norman family studio.

In addition to the large-format and graphic works that coexist and radiate around La Dive BacBuc, Gérard Garouste’s monumental installation at the Palais des Arts, a more intimate scenography is proposed in the eclectic setting of the villa Les Roches Brunes. Decorative objects, paintings, sculptures and furniture construct new family narratives, sometimes playing with the museographic concept of “period rooms”, sometimes revisiting the notion of the “artist’s home”.