CATALOGUE
J. Gourmelin’s Worlds
Drawings
The worlds Jean Gourmelin creates are both made of stone and lightness – the stone from which his characters are formed and the lightness of the fantastic universes they move in.
Men and women, eternally suspended in a space where time has stopped, whose superficial fragility astonishingly resembles our own.
Their surface fragility looks astonishingly like ours.
Jean Gourmelin, 88, has never ceased to draw. His drawings have been exhibited in many art galleries, numerous books as well as reviews and magazines, like Bizarre, Planète, Plexus, Hara-Kiri, Pilote, Elle, Le Monde diplomatique, Le Figaro and Le Point.
This book assembles the works displayed during the exhibition devoted to Jean Gourmelin and organized by the Public Reference Library of Centre Pompidou from 19 June to 30 September 2008.
Jean Gourmelin Exhibition Catalogue
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean Gourmelin’s drawing books
Gourmelin, Planète, 1968.
Pour tuer le temps (To Kill Time), Balland, 1972.
Le Hasard (Chance), Balland, 1975.
Cent onze Gourmelin (One hundred and Eleven Gourmelin), Cahier de l’art mineur issue n° 16-17, Limage,1977.
Jean Gourmelin, Cahiers de l’image issue n° 4, Limage 2, 1982.
Instants d'espace (Space Instants), le cherche midi, 1989.
À la mémoire de l'humanité (In Memory of Humanity), le cherche midi, 1993.
Books illustrated by Jean Gourmelin
Arthur Rimbaud, *uvres (Works), Cercle du bibliophile, 1970.
Gaston Leroux, La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet (Théophraste Longuet’s Double Life), Cercle du bibliophile, 1970.
Pierre Benoît, Monsalvat, Cercle du bibliophile, lgfl.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Cercle du bibliophile, 1972.
Maupassant, Bel-Ami (Bel Ami), Cercle du bibliophile, 1969.
Lovecraft, La Couleur tombée du ciel (The Colour Out of space), Club des Amis du Livre - Denoël, 1973.
Lovecraft, Dans l'abîme du temps (The Shadow Out of Time), Club des amis du livre - Denoël, 1973.
Pierre Berloquin, Un souvenir d'enfance d'Évariste Galois (Évariste Galois’ Childhood Memory), Balland, 1974.
Julien Green, La Nuit des fantômes (The Night of the Ghosts), Plon, 1976.
Claude Klotz, Les Innommables (The Unnamable), Balland, 1977.
Jacques Sternberg, Vivre en survivant (Living As a Survivor), Tchou, 1977.
Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Reader Digest’s Selection, 1986.
Films devoted to Jean Gourmelin
A Window on ... Jean Gourmelin, directed by Michel Honorin, 1976, for Antenne 2.
J. Gourmelin, directed by Sylvaine Mariau, 1998, produced by Les Films de l’Arche.