GARY PANTER
Exhibition in the Cafeteria of Magasin from May 28 to September 10, 2000
Curator : Fabrice Stroun

Gary Panter comes from the Texan punk rock scene. His activities are multiple; he is an illustrator for the musical community (the punk bands Black Flag, germs, Screamers, the magazine Slash), for whom he creates flyers, posters, record jackets. He is surrounded in this activity by Raymond Pettibon, Haime and Gilbert Hernandez, Bobby Lane, etc.
He is also a famous and prolix cartoonist (publisher and unique illustrator of the Jimbo magazine, contributor between 1981 and 1992 in the New York based publication Raw Magazine, author of Dal Tokyo). He was graphic designer, between 1986 and 1988, of the cult TV show Pee Wee Herman, conceiving the house and accessories, for which he was awarded three Emmy Awards. He supervised, in 1988-89 the design and production of the show inspired toys.
Gary Panter embodies the punk version of the wild side of the American "subculture" of the 1980s. As is the case with the work of other artists of his generation, his faked regressive media strategies imposes on the viewer the inevitable role of an arbiter in a semantically impure field. Close to Raymond Pettibon, with whom he shares in the early 1980s the wish to inscribe his production in the art field, Gary Panter is often quoted and worshipped by many American artists of his generation, among them Mike Kelley.

The exhibition at Magasin presents a hybrid selection which is representative of his production : cartoons, original plates, flyers, etc.

The show is completed by an artist book.

GARY PANTER was born in 1950 in Durant, Oklahoma. He lives and works Brooklyn.