Gilles Aillaud
1928 Paris – 2005 Paris
Representative of „Nouvelle Figuration“ and „Figuration Narrative”. Participated at „Salon de la Jeune Peinture“, Paris 1959, 1964, 1973, Venice Biennale, 1976. Retrospective at Musée d’art moderne de la Ville, Paris 1971, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 1991, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing 1998, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg 2005. Numerous stage designs in collaboration with Klaus Michael Grüber, Jean Jourdheuil, Luc Bondy, Giorgio Strehler, Marie-Louise Bischofberger, Jean-Francois Peyret. Represented in museums and public collections.
Recommended literature: Exhibition Catalogue „Gilles Aillaud“, with essay by Jean-Christophe Bailly, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg 2005.