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Gérard Gartner, also known as Mutsa (Romanes for cat), was born in Paris in 1935. In his chequered life, he was a successful boxer, political activist and, among other things, bodyguard to the French Minister of Culture André Malraux. Gartner is a writer, anarchist, curator and artist. He was a companion of the most important author of the French Manouche, Mateo Maximoff, who entrusted him with his personal notes, making him his biographer. Gartner is a co-founder of the Tzigane initiative, an important self-organisation of the French Manouche. Gérard Gartner became an artist as a result of his encounter with Alberto Giacometti. Between 1985 and 2015, he created an extensive oeuvre of powerful and delicate abstract sculptures made from melted plastic industrial waste. The works are labelled and numbered D.I.R. (Déchets Industriels Recyclés), i.e. recycled industrial waste. In 1985, together with the poet Sandra Jayat, he curated the ‘1st World Exhibition of Roma Art’ at the Conciergerie in Paris, organised by the Tzigane initiative, of which he was president at the time. Gartner can therefore be described as a pioneer of contemporary art by the Sinti and Roma. His works were exhibited worldwide until Gartner presented his complete works at the Kai Dikhas Gallery after the Ultima Verba exhibition on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Giacometti on 16 January 2016 to mark the anniversary of his friend Alberto Giacometti’s death and recycled the material as granulate.
Ultima Verba, Gérard Gartner & Jeannette Gregori, Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin (DE)
Ultima Verba à la Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin (GER)
Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez 2014 Exposition des Sculptures, (FR)
Remise du Prix Romanes à Manitas de Plata mai 2013 aux Saintes-Marie-de-la-mer (FR)
Exposition le 17 janvier 2013 au Centre culturel Le vingt sept à Rouillac
La Bateliere, Puy L’Eveque (FR)
Forum des Langues Du Monde, Amassada Rromani Transversale, Toulouse (FR)
Festival de L’Insolite, Puy L’Eveque (FR)
Festival Culture Tsigane, Montricoux (FR)
Meeting Poetic, Montreuil (FR)
Balkan Trafik, Brüssel (BE)
Galerie Carre d’Art Cahors
Cave des Vignerons, Puy L’Eveque (FR)
Palais des congrès, Saintes-Marines-de-la-Mer, (FR)
L’Eden, Charleroi (BE)
Palais des congrès, Lourdes (FR)
La Roseraie, Brüssel (BE)
Etnica, Monte Porzio Catone, Rome (IT)
Centre cuturel, Sablé-sur-Sarthe (FR)
Eglise de la MAdelaine, Paris 8ème (FR)
Siège de l’Unesco, Paris (FR)
Galerie Art et Miss, Paris (FR)
Institut de France, Aachen (GER)
Musée Edgar Melick, Cabries-Callas (FR)
Biennale européenne des Arts tsiganes, Aachen (GER)
Salon Curnonsky, Angers (FR)
FIAP Jean Monnet, Paris 14éme (FR)
Journée du patrimoine, dans le château –Château-Thierry (FR)
Salon d’Art Contemporain, Paris (FR)
Salon d’Art Contemporain, Chelles (FR)
Marché d’Art contemporain, Bastille – Paris (FR)
Galerie Allias, Paris (FR)
Marché d’Art contemporain, Boulogne (FR)
Galerie Equipax, Newport (USA)
Jardin des sculptures – Melbourne, Québec (CAN)
Expoplast – Montréal (CAN)
Mouvement pour la paix, Moskau (RU)
25ème anniversaire, Ecole d’Art No3 – Moskau (RU)
Galerie Maurice Ravel, CISP, Paris (FR)
Centre cuturel – Sainte Camille Québec (CAN)
Salon international de la sculpture contemporaine, Paris (FR)
Le Musée Miniature, Galerie Pixi et Cie, Paris (FR)
Giacometti aurait eu 90 ans, Couvent des Récollets, Paris (FR)
Salon de Artistes, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
Salon international de la sculpture contemporaine, Galerie Maurice Ravel, Paris (FR)
Salon de Artistes, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
Salon de l’Etoile d’Or. Les Lilas (FR)
Biennale franco-italiene, Institut de France, Florenz (IT)
Symposium de sculpture, Oyonnax (FR)
Foire internationale, Barcelona (ES)
1. Mondiale d’Art tzizange, Conciergerie de Paris (FR)
