Laurent Gervereau

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laurent Gervereau
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1956(1956-01-19)
Age	68
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Capricorn

Laurent Gervereau Biography

Laurent Gervereau is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on January 19, 1956 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the Museum of Contemporary History, the museum collaborates with a number of researchers and artists. He created exhibitions of comparatives (Germany and France in the 20th century, Great Britain and France in the 1960s) and also exhibitions on foreign nations as Yugoslav spaces or Russia and the USSR as well as exhibitions on complicated subjects related to French history, such as propaganda in Vichy Government (1991), War in Algeria Vichy government (1991), War in Algeria (1992) and the The history of immigration Dreyfus Affair, Deportation Images and colonies , etc. The year 2001 was the time he was appointed head of the museum of cinema-Henri Langlois at the Cinematheque frenchaise in Paris.

Gervereau has been active in the world of art since the 1970s. He’s been a part of exhibitions featuring a variety of famous surrealists (Philippe Soupault, Belgian or Czech surrealists, Mirabelle Dors, Alfred Courmes, Maurice Rapin, Clovis Trouille among others.). His cultural and artistic interests encompass his involvement in the Dada movements, Proudhon, Charles Fourier Guy Debord, and the movement known as the situationist. He is a part of the College de Pataphysique.

He first worked in bookshops and in a bank (Crédit Agricole) to get money to live. He made the choice on October 1, 1978, to work in a museum. It had two consequences: first, to act for the transformation of the patrimonial institutions all over the world (look at the networks part in networks section); second, made the choice to base his researches on all kind of images because he discovered that 98% of the pieces in the collections interested nobody. Then, became the specialist of the World History of Images or Histiconologia (website for cultural education).

In 1989, he built with Louis Rollinde a new artistic group with a new review in English and French: Painters of History (Les Peintres d’histoire). Exhibitions were held in Naples, Paris and Hanover. To struggle against the new maelstrom of images, he defended rarity in art and the difficulty to see with hidden images (La Disparition des images, 2003). So, he combines art actions or art productions and the creation of unique pieces (“Unik” movement which defends rarity and magic).

The author began with his novel”L’homme Planetaire” (end of the 70s). The middle of the trilogy was published through Sens & Tonka in 2001 with the title Ce book is pas to be read (This Book is Not to be Read). The book was selected by Les Inrockuptibles magazine and the radio station France Culture as one of the top seven books of 2001. The book explores mixed-media as well as the concept of local-global representation in literature, also known as”crossmedialism. “crossmedialism”. The author will create the adaptation for manga of the 3rd part of the tryptique in collaboration with an Chinese illustrator Xin Yu (“Mixplanet” in 2011).

Laurent Gervereau Net Worth

Laurent Gervereau is one of the richest Philosopher from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laurent Gervereau 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laurent Gervereau (born 1956, in Paris) is a French writer, artist philosopher, filmmaker and novelist. The pioneer of the field of Visual History (or Histiconologia) He has dedicated his career to the field of images as well as the direction of the international and cultural institutions.

In the beginning, he began making short films in the 70s He released eight films. They were documentaries that were experimental, belonging to “cinema espresso” and were played from 2009 until the year 2012 (and afterwards). Official projections were announced in January 2011 at the Reflet Medicis in Paris.

In 1977, he founded the pataphysico-situationist review Aux poubelles de la Gloire with Guy Bodson. There were 13 issues and it finished in 1979. This was the beginning of his philosophy of relativity (Pour une philosophie de la relativité, 2010) against relativism. He then built his theories about cultural ecology, evolutionism, necessity of diversity and movement (plurofuturo), of choice between past and future (retrofuturo) and his struggle against those who have only one way to look at the world, inheritated from the past, and want to uniformise the entire planet (monoretros).

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He agreed to become president of the See-socioecolo Network, founded in 2010 in Brazil and Canada (official website of the socioecolo evolutionnists). In the end of 2012 he published LE LOCAL-GLOBAL. Changer soi pour changer la planète (The Local-Global. Change yourself to change the Planet) and was nicknamed for years “Mister Local-Global”. Last but not least, in 2012, he made an artistic action in Hong Kong with the words: “economy is a belief”. In France, he chose: “nostalgia = cancer”. Other members act in Brazil and Canada, and in some other countries for the World Campaign “Knowledge is beautiful”.

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Laurent Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Laurent Gervereau celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

He creates the local-global annual meeting in Argentat sur Dordogne (France): Les Rencontres-Promenades “Histoires de Passages…”. Cabu gave the drawing for the 1st edition (July 2015), which is his last poster, in December 2014.