For the first retrospective of the painter GRATALOUP, died on January 16, 2022, the GRATALOUP museum, represented by his wife Milena, president of the association, "Friends of the GRATALOUP museum" as well as the city of Nantua, represented by its mayor, Jean-Pascal Thomasset, presenta set of 80 works by the painter, from the years 1965 to 2022.

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Hard worker, GRATALOUP has painted more than 5000 paintings, listed through a hundred series. Each year, the painter selected a theme from which he produced around fifty canvases, in different formats.

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Canvases, produced at the Casa Velázquez in 1965, where GRATALOUP resided as a boarder, passing through those of his Prix de Rome in 1967, until those of his last series, "En haut comme en bas", on which he worked until his death, the Espace 3 lacs de Nantua, offers the visitor a timeless vision, through an original and masterful work.

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Often difficult to qualify, due to the inventiveness and novelty of its creation, -we often like to classify painters through a current or an era-, GRATALOUP is one of the new symbolists, in the tradition of Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Gauguin, Munch or Klimt, whose work he admired.

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Between audio podcasts, documenting his main periods of life, and videos on the life and work of the painter, the scenography set up for this retrospective, plunges the viewer into a multi-sensory journey, allowing him to benefit from an individual relationship. to the works presented.

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At the heart of the exhibition, a sound and light projection offers the viewer a show between "Heaven and Earth[1]" on a violin concerto by Philip Glass.

[1] Sound and light produced for the painter's first exhibition at the GRATALOUP museum (March-October 2022), illustrating the canvases of the painter's latest series, "En haut comme en bas".