BIOGRAPHY
• Gervais Jassaud was born in 1944 in the City of Colombes ( near Paris). He is now living on the Mediterranean seaside in Fréjus (France). He studied « Communication Sciences » at the Paris University from 1964 to 1969. In 1970 he began his professional career at the Paris Airport Authority. In 1977, he will , joined an International Civil Engineering Company, then, in 1991, he will be appointed as the Director of the Reims Art & Design School where he shall stay until his retirement in 2005.
• Publishing « Livres d'artistes » is a parallel story! A hobby... just a hobby.
• At the end of the sixties, invited by the poet and art critic Jacques Lepage , in the village of Coaraze, near Nice, he had the opportunity to meet the artists of the « Support/Surface » group and the poets of « TXT ». With them , he will begin to publish « livres d'artistes » for his own pleasure and those of his poets & artists friends.
• So, the exhibition of his artists books at the National Modern Art Museum in the Pompidou Center in Paris in 1977 was a great & wonderful surprise for him as well those later at theVictoria & Albert Museum in London, the Beverly Hills Public Library, the Center of Books Art in New York....
• Following these exhibitions came the idea of "Global Books" from which Gervais Jassaud orchestrated the collaborations of artists and writers from all over the world.
• 40 years after his first « livre d'artistes » Gervais Jassaud is still in addiction with contemporary Art and Litterature.... and of course with the « Livres d'artistes »..
