Gérard Cairaschi

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth Brignoles, France

Gérard Cairaschi

Biography

Gérard Cairaschi is a multimedia visual artist (photography, video, films, film installation and video installation). Born in 1956 in Brignoles (Var), he lives and works in Paris. From 1974 to 1979, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Aix en Provence. A pupil of Louis Bec and Vincent Bioules, he obtained the Higher National Diploma of Plastic Expression in 1979 with congratulations from the jury. In 1980, he participated in the 11th Biennale de Paris - selection films. Since 1981, he has been a professor at the Regional School of Fine Arts then at the Superior School of Art and Design of Reims as a visual artist in charge of the video-film-sound workshop in charge of the plastic approach of video, film and sound Since 1974 he has produced films, videos and installations and has participated in numerous plastic arts exhibitions in museums and galleries and is regularly invited to film and video festivals in France (Paris, Clermont-Ferrand, Valenciennes ...) and all over the world (Montreal, Tokyo, Nagoya, Athens, Basel, Locarno, Lisbon, Osnabrück, Sofia ...). He has produced several videos in collaboration with visual artists, notably with Michel Journiac the videos Messe pour un corps, Action de corps exclu and Device murder and inauguration. His videos are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Center Pompidou, the European House of Photography, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University Cinematheque in Cambridge, USA. In 1999 he received the Video Creation Prize from SCAM and recently the Special Jury Prize at the Videolisboa International Video Festival 2000, Lisbon. Two extracts from his videos - Mémoire (s) and Oversight - appear in the documentary L'Art Vidéo devoted to the history of video art produced by Aude de la Fourcade with the collaboration of Jean-marie Duhard. This documentary broadcast on the France 5 / ARTE channel in February 2002 is co-produced by the Musée national d'art moderne, Center Pompidou.

Known For

Director

Exit

as Director

Délices

as Director

Oversight

as Director

2017
Irae

as Director

2015
Immagine

as Director

2013
M.O.V.I.E.

as Director

2013
Storia

as Director

2012
Silences

as Director

2010
Magia

as Director

2008
menSonges

as Director

2004
Eden

as Director

2002
Michel J

as Director

1999
Mémoire(s)

as Director

1995
Quinae

as Director

1983
1980
Image multiple

as Director

1979
Mur d'une pièce

as Director

1979
4 x 1 x 2

as Director

1977
Radio

as Director

1976
Table

as Director

1975

Editor

1975

Crew

1983
Action de corps exclus

as Cinematography