Astrid
Dado
DADO & Quentin GAREL
Quentin Garel, Dado
04/04/2024 - 04/05/2024
Space N°4, Space 3 bis
Meeting & Signature Thursday April 25, 2024 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. - On the occasion of Dado's exhibition, Galerie Loft presents a fascinating selection of his work, spanning a ten-year period from 1986 to 1996. Through his sculptures, Quentin Garel explores the raw beauty and vulnerability of animals, creating pieces that evoke both the strength and fragility of wildlife. The works of DADO and Quentin Garel weave a fascinating dialogue on the nature of human and animal existence, exploring themes of transformation, metamorphosis and coexistence.
Galerie Loft is pleased to invite you to the DADO exhibition accompanied by sculptures by Quentin Garel.
Thursday Opening April 4, 2024
From 18h
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"Your painting is power. A terror where matter is man. There is a relationship that belongs only to you, between the forms-matter or man-animal, the invertebrate, and the backgrounds-color that give powers of transparency or reflection."
Letter from Gilles Deleuze to Dado, December 26, 1994
On the occasion of Dado's exhibition, Galerie Loft presents a fascinating selection of his work, spanning a ten-year period from 1986 to 1996. In Dado's paintings, human, animal and invertebrate forms intermingle to give rise to troubling figures.
The year 1986 marks a decisive turning point in DADO's life, with his discovery of Buffon and his immersion in the fascinating world of natural history, which is deeply reflected in his work. This exhibition highlights the ceramic series "Les oiseaux d'Irène (The birds of Irène)", a posthumous tribute to the literary icon Irène Némirowsky.
Through his sculptures, Quentin Garel explores the raw beauty and vulnerability of animals, creating pieces that evoke both the strength and fragility of wildlife.
Together, the works of DADO and Quentin Garel weave a fascinating dialogue on the nature of human and animal existence, exploring themes of transformation, metamorphosis and coexistence.
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Meeting & Signature
Thursday April 25, 2024 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In the presence of Amarante Szidon,
Editor at the Center Pompidou & daughter of Dado
In collaboration with the Atelier Contemporain editions
Artworks
Artists
Quentin Garel
Born in Paris in 1975, Quentin Garel graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1998 and lived at Casa Velazquez (1998-2000). His work of sculpture, in bronze, iron, wood or porcelain, is characterized by the creation of a bestiary, sometimes very realistic, sometimes reduced to a state of skeleton. Garel explains: "In recent years, I have developed a sculpture work involving various wood assemblies around the theme of the trophy; proud custom of the man whom I try to divert in favor of the animals of consumption by denouncing the derisory character of this practice."
Dado
Dado, whose real name was Miodrag Djuric, was an artist born on October 4, 1933, in Montenegro, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Dado moved to Paris in 1956, where he began exhibiting his work. Over the years, he gained international recognition for his distinctive artistic output. His paintings and engravings were shown in numerous galleries and museums around the world, including the MoMA and the Guggenheim Foundation in New York, as well as the Centre Pompidou, and he was honored with many prestigious awards throughout his career. Despite his fame, Dado remained true to his artistic independence and continued to explore new creative territories until his death in 2010 in Paris.