Collection: Gerard Zlotykamien

Gérard Zlotykamien began painting in 1955. His encounter with Yves Klein, who taught him judo and the rigor of the creative act, was decisive in his career. His first street interventions date from 1963, where he painted ghostly silhouettes in the immense construction site known as the "trou des Halles" in Paris, using an enema bulb and then aerosol cans.

His drawings, which he calls "ephemeral," evoke the human shadows that were imprinted on the walls after the Hiroshima explosion. An executive at Galeries Lafayette by day, a painter by night, very much on the fringes of the art world, Zlotykamien painted his ephemeral works in many cities around the world: Leipzig (Germany), Cape Town (South Africa)...