ORIS (Series of 40 Heads)
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Body & Soul
Group exhibition
02/06/2022 - 29/07/2022
Space N°4
Silent and burning cries, beings that come to life before our eyes, the works that make up the new exhibition presented at Galerie LOFT carry within them the incandescent fire of a new spirituality. Transcending genres, borders and time, they transport us to the hearts of exceptionally powerful universes of a generation of contemporary artists whose creation emerges from a vital need, the ultimate expression of their beings as much as of their souls.
On this earth and elsewhere, the night invades my skin, my hair, my eyes. My whole being lets itself be sucked into this enigmatic and magical universe. But darkness is not nothingness, emptiness is not nothingness, they are hope and promise. That of inhabited bodies, that of incarnated souls.
Silent and burning cries, beings that come to life before our eyes, the works that make up the new exhibition presented at Galerie LOFT carry within them the incandescent fire of a new spirituality. Transcending genres, borders and time, they transport us to the hearts of exceptionally powerful universes of a generation of contemporary artists whose creation emerges from a vital need, the ultimate expression of their beings as much as of their souls.
Artists
Yazid Oulab
A thousand-facets artist with an ancestral soul Yazid Oulab seems to be nourished by centuries of civilizations. He is an interpreter and a messenger capable of analyzing and translating into simplified objects millennia of cultural, social and spiritual history. Son of a worker-mechanic-farmer father and a French teacher mother, Yazid Oulab is a real “storyteller. He is the accomplished artist, a man who, far from the excesses of today’s society, would always be ready to sacrifice his newly gained fame to art. He is a craftsman who is in love with the gesture, a fascinated and fascinating poet for whom the gaze generates meaning, a tireless witness and a potentially omniscient one. His works – objects, installations, sculptures and videos – represent tools of expression and communication that encourage us to consider the plurality of our times and measure the historical influence of all things.
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".
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.
Kong Shengqi
Kong Shengqi's works, carved in wood, soft and clear, bring out of the material fantastic and organic creatures, with round faces and naive features, sometimes almost childish and sometimes terrifying. Her obvious love for the material that is wood and her way of sculpting particularly evokes the arts of the natives of North America, which can be found in Alaska or on the Inuit lands of Canada.
Kévin-Ademola Sangosanya
Of French and Yoruba origin, Kevin-Ademola SANGOSANYA was born in the Paris region in 1996. Although he showed a real passion and already great abilities for drawing at a very young age, he did after obtaining his baccalaureate in engineer in tropical agronomy. He spent 8 months in Nigeria for his end-of-diploma internship working on the conservation of forest species, reforestation, and the study of medicinal, food and sacred plants by making the link between the three areas that fascinate him. then, the preservation of culture, the sustenance of populations and spirituality. Despite everything, his compulsive need to create accompanies him on a daily basis. He draws more and more, compulsively picks up objects in the street which become supports for the creation of painting-objects and scatters the walls of Cergy where he then lives off his graffiti-poems under the pseudonym of "Lonely Jane".