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Introduction[modifier | modifier le code]

Gregory Forstner is a visual artist born in 1975 in Douala, Cameroon from a French mother and an Austrian father.[1] Since 2008, he works between the USA, Germany and France.

Biography[modifier | modifier le code]

Formation[modifier | modifier le code]

At age eleven, Gregory Forstner has been spotted Luc Besson to play the part of Enzo Molinari (aka Enzo Maiorca), in the movie The Big Blue[2]. At age fifteen, he spends one year in two religious host famillies in Key West, Florida.[3] As a teenager Gregory Forstner discovers that his grandfather on his father’s side had been a nazi and a SS and his grandmother chief of a factory mobilized in the war effort.[4]


He interrupts High School and decides to study at the [[He interrupts High School and decides to study at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, then at the School of Fine Arts in Nice (Villa Arson), France from which he graduates at age twenty four yaers[5]. In 2008, he is the award recipient of a grant and a residency at Triangle Arts Residency Program] in Brooklyn, NY, and has settled in New York since.[6]

Education[modifier | modifier le code]

During his studies and after graduating from the school of Fine Arts in Nice (Villa Arson) in 1999, he places himself on the fringe of an art scene he considers academic, decorative, and conceptually opportunistic.[7]


His interests brings him to his origins as well as artists of the turn of the 20th century from the Mitteleuropa such as Edvard Munch, Otto Dix, Kirchner and Richard Gerstl after whom he did many portraits. He refuses the doctrine of history and Art history written in a linear way and chooses within his work the principles of anachronism, transfer, absurdity and idiocy.


Carreer[modifier | modifier le code]

First solo show in a Museum in 2007 at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Nice, France. [8] In 2009, the Museum of Grenoble invites him for a solo show, simultaneously as solo shows by Duncan Wylie and Alex Katz.

The painting « Le Goûteur » is bought by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2006 under the authority of former director Suzanne Pagé and art critic, writer and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.[9]

Between 2000 and 2006, while working on the Jesters figures, he borrows emblematics figures of history of painting, reframing them and giving them new roles such as in « The Cosaque » (after Ilia Répine) and « The Gentleman » painted after Otto Dix.

After 2007 and his solo show at MAMAC in Nice and Musée de Grenoble, the staging of his subjects are organized around pool tables in which the protagonists are animal figures inspired by American illustrators Cassius Marcellus Coolidge and Arthur Sarnoff. Some of the figures are dressed up with soldiers uniforms of both the Wehrmacht and the SS. Ludwig Seyfarth, in the essay he wrote in the monography The Ship of Fools (published by verlag für Moderne Kunst in 2009), in order to contextualize it’s perspective, convene the works of Art Spiegelman, Jörg Immendorf and Markus Lüpertz as well as the popular, satirical and grotesque Flemish tradition, from Jérôme Bosch, Jan Steen to James Ensor.

After 2008, Gregory Forstner’s work intoduces his environment from Bed-stuy in Brooklyn, NY, PULP images and 19th century illustrations on the American conquest of the white man going West. His interest primarily goes to the representation of Black Americans depicted in our western collective imaginary, as well as the Minstrels Shows ; ex : The Happy Fisherman series, Brooklyn Boogie (TIA Collection [10]) or the series titled Study for an American Archetype.

Some works, under the generic title Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better are directly inspired by the outstanding fairy tale by George Orwell first published in the summer of 1945.

In October 2014, he is invited to talk about his work at Collège de France with (among others) Jeff Koons, Cheri Samba, Glenn Brown and Hernan Bas.[11]

In 2015, L’Odeur de la Viande is published by Esperluète éditions in which he writes about his grandfather, the melancoly of his father and his relationship to the sea and long distance swimming (…)[12]


Works[modifier | modifier le code]

Gregory Forstner borrows his subjects from the widest variety of iconographic sources to create compositions whose visual impacts is striking. His universe – where laughter is never very far from terror and references to the great masters of the past meet borrowings from illustrations of all types – depicts humankind as grotesque, disturbing and cruel. But to do so the artist makes use of subterfuge in the form of masks, disguises, and transpositions, so that the most terrifying scenes look like parties ans massacres take on the jolly appearences of carnivals. Painted with broad strokes, with a fieriness that sometimes verges on a sort of destructive rage, these images remain nonetheless « beautiful pieces of paintings ». And ultimately what is most impressive here is the pictorial control, manifested as much in the flashes of chromatic brillance as the impacable power of the stroke.[13]


Writting[modifier | modifier le code]

  • L’odeur de la viande, (80 pages), collection of texts published by Esperluète éditions, 2015.
  • A number of his texts have been published by Editions derrière la salle de bains directed by Marie-laure Dagoit : Le Premier Tableau, Mon Héros, Ma Poupée, Lollipop, Un Matin, La Fiancée du Collectionneur

Group Show[modifier | modifier le code]

The painting Blown to Surface is bought by the Museum of Grenoble in 2009 and presented in the show « from Picasso to Wahrol » at the Museum in 2015.[14]

In 2016, his work is featured in the show Animal Farm - Beastly Muses and Métaphores, Gallery S/2 at Sotheby’s, London with (among others) Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, William Wegman, Adrien Ghenie (…)[15]

Group shows at La Fondation Maeght, Vence ; Musée Flaubert, Rouen ; Musée de Grenoble, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice ; Sammlung Goetz, Munich ; Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal ; National Art Gallery, Sofia ; Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Riga ; Péra Museum, Istanbul ; Musée Benaki, Athènes ; The Elisabeth Foundation of the Arts, New York ; Parker’s Box gallery, New York ; Sotheby’s, London, etc.[16]

Collections (Museums and Foundations)[modifier | modifier le code]

  • Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris[17] (ARC)
  • Museum of Grenoble[18]
  • Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice[19] (MAMAC)
  • Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
  • Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie[20], de Basse-Normandie[21] et d’Alsace[22] (France)
  • SACEM (France)
  • Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon Fondation[23] (Annecy)
  • Fondation Maeght, collection Bernard Massini[24] (Nice)
  • Richard Massey Fondation (New York)
  • Sammlung Goetz (Munich)
  • Tia Collection (US)

Film/ Documentaries[modifier | modifier le code]


Publication[modifier | modifier le code]

Monography Catalogues[modifier | modifier le code]

  • Rain Dog, Zink Gallery, 2011 by Jeanette Zwingenberger (Publish by Zink Gallery, Berlin)
  • Dit is de minj (Revolver Books, 2006)
  • Easyover (MAMAC, Nice, 2007)
  • The Ship of Fools (Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Museum og Grenoble and Zink Gallery, Berlin, 2009).

Shows catalogues[modifier | modifier le code]


Liens externes/Sources[modifier | modifier le code]


Liens externes[modifier | modifier le code]

{{Portail|arts}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Forstner, Gregory}} [[Catégorie:Peintre français du XXe siècle]] [[Catégorie:Naissance en mai 1975]] [[Catégorie:Naissance à Douala]] [[Catégorie:Plasticien contemporain]]

  1. ↑ http://www.esperluete.be/Forstner-Gregory/Fortsner-Gregory.php
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287013/.
  3. ↑ http://www.esperluete.be/Forstner-Gregory/Fortsner-Gregory.php
  4. ↑ http://www.esperluete.be/Forstner-Gregory/Fortsner-Gregory.php
  5. ↑ http://eva-vautier.com/Art/forstner-gregory/
  6. ↑ http://www.triangle-arts-association.org/alumni
  7. ↑ http://www.esperluete.be/Forstner-Gregory/Fortsner-Gregory.php
  8. ↑ http://www.mamac-nice.org/francais/exposition_tempo/galerie/forstner-2007/index.html
  9. ↑ http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/musee-d-art-moderne/oeuvres/le-gouteur
  10. ↑ (en-US) « Modernist Intersections: The Tia Collection - The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Archive of Visual Arts », sur The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Archive of Visual Arts (consulté le )
  11. ↑ http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/claudine-tiercelin/symposium-2014-10-31-15h00.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.esperluete.be/Forstner-Gregory/Fortsner-Gregory.php
  13. ↑ http://www.ac-grenoble.fr/educationartistique.isere/IMG/pdf_DPress_FORSTNER_Web.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.museedegrenoble.fr/958-presse.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/2016/animal-farm-beastly-muses-metaphors-ls1603.html
  16. ↑ http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/2016/animal-farm-beastly-muses-metaphors-ls1603.html
  17. ↑ http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/musee-d-art-moderne/oeuvres/le-gouteur
  18. ↑ « Presse - Musée », sur www.museedegrenoble.fr (consulté le )
  19. ↑ « MAMAC de Nice - Acquisitions récentes », sur www.mamac-nice.org (consulté le )
  20. ↑ « Glen Baxter, Gregory Forstner | Le Beau est toujours bizarre | Sotteville Les Rouen. Frac Haute-Normandie », sur www.paris-art.com (consulté le )
  21. ↑ « Peter Buggenhout, Koenraad Dedobbeleer | Des pas dans l’escalier | Caen. Frac Basse-Normandie », sur www.paris-art.com (consulté le )
  22. ↑ « Publications du Frac Alsace », sur www.culture-alsace.org (consulté le )
  23. ↑ « collection Salomon du 13 mars au 30 mai 2010 », sur www.fondation-salomon.com (consulté le )
  24. ↑ « Collection Bernard Massini, Expositions - Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght | Art Moderne et Contemporain », sur www.fondation-maeght.com (consulté le )
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