The academic, essayist, critic, collector and pataphysician, son of hardwareers, transformed bric-a-brac into art of living, and life in whirlwind. He died on December 19 in Paris, at 88 years old.
by Florent Georgesco
Her unique voice, long familiar to the listeners of France Culture, could herself only be described in a paradoxical way: all flute and warm, hail and deep, she distinguished him from the outset, like her abundant work, heterogeneous , Constantly unexpected, has shown him since his first book, from his thesis, the monster in Western art (Klincksieck, 1973). The art philosopher, academic, writer, essayist, critic, collector and pataphysician Gilbert Lascault died on December 19 in Paris. He was 88 years old.
His parents, when he was born in Strasbourg on October 25, 1934, were hardware in Obernai (Bas-Rhin). If, after a war notably marked by the absence of his father, a prisoner in Germany, he quickly shies away from their desire to convey family trade to him – he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1960 -, he will claim this Hardware ancestry to define its relationship to art and literature. At the bend of one of the rare portraits devoted to this man so eloquent to talk about others and so parsimonious on himself, he declared in 2008 to the journalist of the “World of Books” who came to visit him in his Parisian apartment, where S ‘ The most diverse works: “My place looks like a chaotic hardware. Paintings, sculptures, photographs encourage me to think a little, to dream, to write (…). I metamorphose my rooms.”
As a tribute to this way of transforming the bric-a-brac into an art of living, and life in whirlwind, it is also under the title “The haunted rooms of Gilbert Lascault” that the museum of the ‘Hospice Saint-Roch, in Issoudun (Indre), organized in 2014 a large retrospective exhibition (whose catalog was published by Tarabast editions). We found some of the contemporary artists who marked his work and, for some, invaded the walls of his apartment-Bang Hai Ja, Henri Cueco, Jean Dubuffet, Christian Jaccard, Annette Messager, Henri Michaux, Jean-Luc Parant, Brigitte Tartière, Vladimir Velickovic…
“Invent a fictional approach”
Professor of aesthetics and philosophy of art in Paris-Nanterre then at the Sorbonne, Gilbert Lascault studied them all, dreamed, reinvented throughout what he called “seminars of uncertainty”, in A teaching he wanted to the antipodes of the system spirit. “I try to invent a fictional, paradoxical, contradictory approach (…), he said to the” world of books “. I enter into colorful labyrinths of reflection (…), where uncertain, in their own way, the blur, the shadow. “
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