Guy Peellaert

Guy Peellaert was born the April 6th 1934 with Brussels in Belgium. Graphic designer, painter and photographer, it diverts and recomposes reality around outstanding characters his time.

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It begins as decorator from theater and is made known by the Cartoon. Its style is connected with psychedelic esthetics “” and with the Pop Art . the adventures of Jodelle , (copy of the singer Sylvie Vartan) appear in the monthly magazine Hara-Kiri . Eric Losfeld, editor of avant-garde, publishes this first work in 1966. He reiterates in 1968 with the second, Co-writing with Pascal Thomas for a news héroîne, Pravda, oversteer the (this time, it is the singer Francoise Hardy which is taken as model). Thirty five years later, the dressmaker Jean-Charles de Castelbajac will take again the images of Pravda and Jodelle for his collection Physical graffiti in 2001.

He devotes himself then to the painting which is translated in the design of film posters: Martin Scorsese ( Taxi Driver ); Robert Altman ( Short Cuts ); Robert Bresson ( the Money ); Wim Wenders ( Paris, Texas and Wings of the desire )… Small pockets of discs also: for the Rolling Stones ( It' S Only Rock'n'roll ); David Bowie ( Diamond Dogs ); Etienne Daho ( For our Martian lives ); Lio ( Wandatta )… And credits of the emission of Television, Cinema, cinemas on Antenna 2, in 1982. Its works are the subject of many exposures throughout the world and are joined together in some books which are a certain international success: Rock'n'roll Dreams , Albin Michel, Paris, 1974, is an album of illustrations painted around improbable meetings between artists of the show-bizz . Sold to more than one million specimens it was republished at Taschen in November 2003. It uses the pastel to represent emblematic celebrities of America in Las Vegas. The Big Room , Albin Michel, Paris, 1986. It makes painted joinings of various political personalities that it joined together in Rêves of the 20th century , Grasset, 1999. Its last productions are made photographic cuttings using the computer graphics on computer, the such astonishing greetings card which it carries out for Jean-Pierre Chevènement, then Minister of Interior Department, in 2000.

Guy Peellaert

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