Between Sky and Earth

Group exhibition

17/09/2026 - 30/10/2026

Space 3 bis, Space N°4

This autumn, Galerie Loft unveils a new exhibition bringing together works by twelve artists represented by the gallery. From sculpture to painting, from narrative figuration to abstraction, this selection brings different generations and different visions of the world into dialogue.

To look up at the sky, to imagine journeys beyond our planet, to dream of territories still unknown. Space opens before us onto an endless horizon, filled with discoveries yet to come, projects still kept secret, and worlds that humanity is already striving to reach. It becomes a space for projection, where curiosity, the desire to explore, and the dream of elsewhere converge.

And then, perhaps, to return to Earth. To come back to matter, to landscapes, to bodies, to the elements. To listen to what surrounds us, to rediscover the silent rhythm of the living world and the ancient forces that came before us. To look at what is simply there, and at what sometimes eludes us.

Between sky and earth, between the visible and the invisible, between what was and what might come to be, the works brought together in this exhibition create an open space between dream and reality. They invite us to shift our gaze, to lose ourselves for a moment, and to imagine other paths.

Exhibition until October 31.

Artists

Wang Keping

Wang Keping is one of the most eminent members of Stars Art Group (xing xing 星星画会) , a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His wood sculptures blackened by fire and were firstly inspired by totem and by idols who reminded of folkloric tutelary figures in north of China and in Korean. Then his creation turned to the simple formes with the themes : women wearing a bun, kiss/couple, bird, masculine figures with tail, and a pair of teat. The simplification and purification were embodied in his sculptures, moreover, in the best cases reminded of Constantin Brancusi’s works.

Philippe Hiquily

Born in Montmartre in 1925, Philippe Hiquily is a very singular artist, sculptor, but also creator of furniture, jewellery, etchings and experimental kinetic and electronic works. The main axis of his work is to play with shapes and balance but also the “coupling” of sculptures and objects. May they be in iron, brass or steel there are always principles behind his sculptures, art must be funny, playful and esthetical. Movements, curves and materials are as many ways to give life to metal that is metamorphosed in an erotic object. From New York to Paris, museums of tribal art to the salon of French aristocracy, this lover of women, protégé of Germaine Richier, friend of Arman, César, Jodorowsky or Alain Jouffroy, this very convivial and great cigar lover, Officer of the National Order of Arts and Letters, has always known, throughout his life, how to completely overwhelm our view of sculpture.

Philippe Huart

Philippe Huart was born in 1953 in Clamart (France). He was inspired by the effects of advertising, marketing and consumption. His painting is based on the concept of "objective reality". Pictorial perception is above all "visual". It is linked to forms and rhythms. The works of Philippe Huart are not only everyday objects, but a "symbol".

Jacques Monory

Jacques Monory (1924–2018) is one of the major representatives of Narrative Figuration (Figuration narrative), a movement identified by critics as early as 1964, running parallel to American Pop Art. His highly complex body of work has sparked the interest and analysis of numerous intellectuals. Monory asserted a fundamentally dramatic vision of existence, fueled by current … Continued

Francesco Marino Di Teana

Born amongst a family of peasants, Francesco Marino di Teana was successively a shepherd, a mason in Italy (Teana), site foreman, architect and student at the Art University of Argentina before moving to Paris in 1953. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, poet and philosopher and becomes one of the major sculptors of the 20th with his theories on “triunitarian” logic and architectural sculpture. Represented for more than 20 years by the mythical Denise René gallery and winner of prestigious artistic prizes, he was acclaimed by some of the greatest creators and art critics of his time. Precursor of the Monumenta’s at the Grand Palais with the exhibition of his monumental fountains (9 m high for 16 long), that he made with Saint-Gobain (Glass and industrial materials company), he has raised more than 40 monumental sculptures throughout France, one being the highest iron sculpture in Europe, “Liberté“ (Liberty), that is 20 meters high (at Fontenay-sous-bois). His lifetime work was the object of a retrospective in 1975 at the Paris Museum of Modern Arts, he represented Argentina at the Venice biennial of 1982, and won the academy of fine arts prize in 2009.

Christos Kalfas

His work explores the language of myths and other stories of her culture, in juxtaposition with our modernity. Many personal exhibitions followed, in international fairs such as Fiac, Art Basel, Art Brussels, etc.; and in galleries such as Patrice Trigano, LOFT gallery (Paris), Pascal Polar (Brussels), Athens gallery and Lola Nicolas in Greece. The Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Étienne devotes a personal exhibition to him on his engraved work, as does the Picasso Museum of Antibes.

Juliette Kiều Mi Châu

Born in 1995 in Ho Chi Minh City and a graduate of the Villa Arson, Juliette Kiều Mi Châu grew up between Vietnam and France—two territories that have deeply shaped her relationship to landscape, material, and the rhythms of the world.

Anis Nabil Harbaoui

In his work—whether in pencil, ink, or paint—Nabil Harbaoui shares his vision of figuration in the era of relentless technological progress and speculates on realities that are both concrete and alternative. Drawing inspiration from reality and his surroundings, he presents a vision of a world in a state of perpetual agony. In a pursuit of realism, he blurs the lines between critique and celebration of contemporary societies, questioning the conflicts that divide them and the plagues they inevitably carry. Deeply attached to references, he weaves them into his work, raising numerous questions about the state of the world at the beginning of the 21st century.

Arx Lee (Li Chaoxiong)

In research of the meaning of life, Li Chaoxiong (Arx Lee), a genius illustrator, gradually creates different poetic universes where the heroes and dreamers live. Since his childhood, the artist is immersed in the world of superheroes, cartoons and illustration. Developing his style in different artistic disciplines, such as painting, illustration, design, sculpture and photography, Li has gradually found his own language and mastered the codes of literary narration and of plastic and digital composition. Undoubtedly his unique painting style and figurative language are representative of what China has best to offer among the young generation.

Liên Hoàng-Xuân

Liên Hoàng-Xuân, an artist of Vietnamese, Tunisian and French origin, was born in Paris in 1995. Multi-disciplinary, her installations, paintings, prints and videos enable her to blend memories with a loving imagination in a fictional city she calls the "South of Nowhere": a blend of Tunis, Saigon and Beirut.

Qiu Zhijie

Qiu Zhijie is born in Fujian Province in China in 1969. In 1992 he graduated from The National Academy Of Fine Art and he works in the printmaking department. But now he lives in Beijing as a full-time artist. As well as an art critic and curator.

Guillaume Piéchaud

Guillaume Piéchaud is a French sculptor and designer. Born in 1968, he graduated from the École Boulle (an historical reference amid art and design schools in Europe) in 1988, where he attended engraving techniques of precious metal. He has worked with famous jewelry designers for eight years, creating collections in collaboration with the most important craftsmen and luxury brands.