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ART PARIS 2021 • Galerie LOFT • THE 70'S SHOW

Group exhibition

08/09/2021 - 12/09/2021

From Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 September 2021, Art Paris is the first international artistic event to inaugurate the Grand Palais Éphémère, a spectacular structure by Jean-Michel Wilmotte on the Champ-de-Mars. The Loft Gallery is pleased to welcome you to the ART PARIS fair to discover our unique exhibition "THE 70's SHOW".

From Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 September 2021, Art Paris is the first international artistic event to inaugurate the Grand Palais Éphémère, a spectacular structure by Jean-Michel Wilmotte on the Champ-de-Mars. The Loft Gallery is pleased to welcome you to the ART PARIS fair to discover our unique exhibition "THE 70'S SHOW".
INFORMATION Open to the public Thursday September 9 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday September 10 12 p.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday September 11 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Sunday September 12 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Opening Wednesday September 8 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (by invitation) Pre-openings from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 September from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Reserved for holders of VIP, Prestige and Daily Preview badges

LOFT Gallery • THE 70'S SHOW Stand F8

♫ Do you remember… ♪ Pop, colors; funk, synthesizers, disco, glow…. The decade from the late 1960s to the late 1970s was colorful. A true visual revolution as much as a social and cultural one, the world is shaken by a wind of freedom. Art is also undergoing significant changes thanks to the questions brought to the artistic scene by major movements such as Support-surface, New Realism, Pop Art, Narrative Figuration, Arte Povera, minimal art, Op Art or conceptual art. This is the time for discoveries and experiments. Design in the United States and Europe is going through a pivotal period, notably thanks to the major contribution of the artist Bernard Quentin in the field of inflatable sculpture. As for the sculpture, it is available on all media and all dimensions. Games of perspectives, movements, lines and shapes respond and harmonize. Philippe Hiquily and Francesco Marino di Teana explore their own practice to offer us their most iconic works. For ArtParis 2021, the LOFT gallery has chosen to plunge into the heart of these key years, to offer us a vibrant look at this decade like no other. So mark your calendars, we are waiting for you on our stand F8 in the heart of the ephemeral Grand Palais on the Champ de Mars from September 8.    

Artists

Philippe Hiquily

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.

Francesco Marino Di Teana

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.

Bernard Quentin

Bernard Quentin

Art is a language, a unique form of expression that allows artists to experiment as well as for the public to have intense and new feelings. Amongst these artists that have in the 20th century known how to question the world, there is a man who, in his 96th year of age, has preserved his desire to explore and continues to work on these ways to communicate. BERNARD QUENTIN was born in 1923 in Flamicourt (Picardie, France). After the Second World War he starts to produce works that have writing as basis, assuming that the ideal form to unite people is language. During his relentless quest to conceive universal signs, he comes to make monumental pieces, but also starts using original materials or tries to establish a real “semiology” of art. Passed away in June 2020, he will have never stopped creating throughout his life, and his participation in Art for All proves once again his dedication to designing works for everyone.