He was a journalist, a revolutionary, a ship's captain, a weaver, a hunter, a drug dealer, a lorry driver, a barman… and one of the most enigmatic, free and discreet artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue brings together and explores the works of Gil J Wolman, a member of the Lettrist movement who aspired to transform pictorial representation by introducing words, sounds, phonemes and writing into the space of painting.
Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive
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Gil Joseph Wolman (Paris, 1929 – Paris, 1995) created work characterised by a radical fusion of different arts, particularly painting, poetry and cinema. He was part of the Letterist movement founded by Isidore Isou at the end of the forties, which proclaimed a transformation in art and society.
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09.01.2011
Gil J Wolman
I am immortal and alive
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