Gérard-Philippe Broutin (born 1948 in Saint-Cloud, France) studied Art History at the University of Paris and the École du Louvre. Alongside other artists such as Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, François Poyet or Jean-Pierre Gillard in particular, Broutin meets
Isidore Isou in 1968 and from then on participates in most of the events and literary exhibitions of the
lettrist movement.
His first
pictorial works were shown in March 1969, during the exhibition “Today Lettrism and Hypergraphy” at Galerie Stadler in Paris. The scattered elements that he proposes—lines of writing, hieroglyphic ideograms, empty compartments, precisely drawn—evolve towards the creation of a personal alphabet, made of notional signs, mainly
animals and plants, which will be his particular mark.
