Gérard Zlotykamien (Zloty)

The first artist to intervene in the street completely illegally, he drew his first "Ephemerals", evanescent silhouettes, between masks and ghosts, in 1963 and never stopped painting on walls or bulky objects (mattresses, doors, glass, suitcases, etc.).

These figures testify to human stupidity: European and Asian tragedies of the Second World War, terrorism, climatic disasters, etc.

With this first monograph, retracing more than sixty years of creation, we discover the influence, importance and coherence of Gérard Zlotykamien's work. A work that constantly reminds us of the interrupted existence of innocent peoples and more generally of the ephemerality of human existence.