Gérard Guyomard

« JJJM 8 »

Série : « JJJM »

(Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Michelangelo Merisi)

Acrylique et transfert d'encre sur toile – 2013 – 100 x 81 cm

Signature et date en bas à gauche – Titre, signature, date et numéro dans la série au dos.

Provenance : atelier de l'artiste

Series : « JJJM »

(Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Michelangelo Merisi)

Acrylic and newspaper's ink transfer on canvas – 2013 – 100 x 81 cm

Signed and dated lower left – Title, signature, date and numbering into the series on the reverse

Origin : artist's studio

Word of the merchant :

The series of the "JJJM"s can be considered as a return to or a development of an older Gérard Guyomard's work (1986/87) about "idols" of rock music whose series "Eté rock clips" is the spinal cord. Some of these "idols" have had a tragic fate and have been grouped under the title "club of 27" for their membership to the very special circle of musicians and singers who died at the age of 27 between July 1969 and July 1971. Among them Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hendricks and Janis Joplin. They constitute the three "J"s of the series. To these three "J"s Gerard Guyomard adds one "M" in the person of Michelangelo Merisi, said Caravaggio, also dead at 27 although in a different age. All the works in this series mix and recycle emblematic images of each of these four artists. In an anecdotal and very personal way the title of the series "3JM" makes us irresistibly think of another association of letters: "J2M", alias Jean-Marie Messier, whose governance mode of a CAC 40 group was in the news in the early 2000s. This wink would indeed be well in the manner of Gerard Guyomard a specialist in phonetic writing and in cryptography.