Catalogue for "Brion Gysin" Exhibition in Tangier (2013)

Tangier, Morocco: Institut français du Maroc, and Marseille, France: centre international de poésie Marseille (exhibition catalogue), 2013. 8.25" x 8.25" x 0.25", 58 pages, softcover, no ISBN.

Brion Gysin, a catalogue for the jointly organized exhibition of Brion Gysin's works at Galerie Delacroix (Tangier, Morocco) between 4 April and 4 May 2013, organized by Alexandre Pajon (director of the Institut français de Tanger) and Najat Algandouzi (director of Galerie Delacroix). This was supported by centre international de poésie Marseille (cipM, Marseille, France) and Galerie de France, Paris.

An introduction in French on the exhibition by Alexandre Pajon, director of the Institut français de Tanger, and Emmanuel Ponsart, director of cipM, is on page 7.

A detail from a 1958 Sahara painting by Gysin is on page 9. 

Bernard Collet's essay in French on Brion Gysin appears on page 11.

Gérard-Georges Lemaire contributes “Brion Gysin, le peintre des déserts et du silence de l’écriture” on pages 13–15.

Michel Bulteau contributes “Brion Gysin dans son élément” on pages 17–18.

A detail from Brion Gysin’s 1958 painting Vent de sable appears on page 19.

The following works by Gysin appear in this catalogue:

• p. 21: an untitled 1960 calligraphy painting
• p. 23: an untitled 1958 Sahara painting. 
• p. 25: Vent de sable, a 1958 Sahara painting
• p. 27: Solaire, a 1958 Sahara painting
• p. 29: an untitled 1959 Sahara painting
• pp. 31, 33, 35: a 1961 series of calligraphic paintings titled Gracias a Matta
• p. 37: an untitled 1961 roller grid painting
• pp. 39, 41, 43, 45: untitled 1962 calligraphic drawings
• p. 47: a framed image of the 1977 Roller Poem II 
• p. 49: the large 1975 painting Pals Popping out of Windows
• pp. 51–55: the photographic series, 1974, The Last Museum

A brief biography of Gysin, with a photograph of him, appears on page 57.

This copy of the catalogue was acquired from Aloes Books publisher James Pennington.