Born in 1929 in Paris.

Died in 1995 in Paris.

Gil Joseph Wolman is a major multidisciplinary artist from the second half of the 20th century. Her work connects poetry, painting, sculpture, cinema and conceptual arts in works intertwined with each other throughout her career.

Creator of «Megapneumia» from the age of twenty, he substitutes the breath to the letter of poetry and creates, by means of various respiratory rhythms, a form of chiseling poetry, that is to say deconstructed. 

In 1951, he made the Anticoncept, a film without images, projected on probe balloon, today in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art.

In 1952 he founded the Lettrist International with Guy Debord. Until 1957 he took an active part in the Lettrist movement. He wrote with Debord the text Mode d'emploi du détournement in 1956, the concept of which advocated the reuse of pre-existing elements generally from books or newspapers (fragments of texts, photographs, etc.) to recompose them for subversive propaganda purposes. In 1956, he represented the Lettrist International at the Congress of Alba, which laid the foundations for the future Situationist International.

After his exclusion from the Lettrist International in 1957, he developed a personal work, away from all schools. In 1963, he invented Art Scotch, a process of tearing strips of prints with an adhesive tape that he repositions on canvas or wood. In the 1970s, he participated in the artist collective “Jacob ou la persuasion”. In 1977-78, he created the separatist movement. Then came Dühring Dühring in 1979 and the Decompositions in 1980. The painted Painting, in which it is this time to separate the canvas from its subject, occupies the last part of his work from 1991.

Three solo exhibitions of Wolman took place at the gallery Lara Vincy: To separate in 1980, then Déchet d'oeuvre in 1981 and Imagining an exhibition in 1983.