The collection ART FOR ALL - Art is for everybody

Group exhibition

09/12/2020 - 02/02/2021

Space 3 bis

Galerie LOFT Paris launches a large collection of artworks by contemporary artists from various origins and universes, united around the brand new concept of "ART FOR ALL, a work of art for all". Each chosen piece has been thought thru and made with the collaboration of the artists in a numbered limited edition, accompanied of a certificate of authenticity, at an affordable price. It is time today to declare: Yes Art is For All ! Yes everybody can buy art! and yes art can invite itself in all the areas of your life!

At the end of the 19th century, Leo Tolstoy affirmed that "Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.", it will be necessary to wait almost a century for access to art is experiencing a real evolution. In the 1960’s, Andy Warhol opened a breach with his silkscreens, followed by Keith Haring in the 1980’s when he widely and loudly declared “art is for everybody”. Still even if street art has changed our perception of what exhibition spaces could be, everything needs to be done in terms of acquiring art. It’s urgent today to demystify the “elitism” of art to make our connection towards artworks evolve. It’s with this idea in mind that the “Art For All” collection was created. The Loft gallery has chosen with this unique angle, to offer for sale key artworks of great quality. Each chosen piece has been thought thru and made with the collaboration of the artists in a numbered limited edition, accompanied of a certificate of authenticity, at an affordable price (from 150 to 500 €). With this in perspective, to buy artworks is no longer a budget problem, but clearly a question of desire. It is time today to declare: Yes Art is For All ! Yes everybody can buy art! and yes art can invite itself in all the areas of your life! The need for esthetics is universal and now we can have our own artworks in our homes. Let’s put some poetry, some travesty or mystery in our everyday life. Let’s just simply live art, for us ...for all. Find all collection, please click here !

Artists

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.

Claude Gilli

Claude Gilli is a major figure of the “École de Nice” (School of Nice) that had a considerable impact on French pop art. Born in Nice in 1938, he enters the School of applied arts of his hometown in 1955. In 1962, on New Year’s Eve, he burns most of his early works. Close to the artists Albert Chubac, Martial Raysse, Ben, but also Arman, César, Farhi and Venet it’s his encounter with Robert Malaval that will lead to different works that they made in common around “aliment blanc”. Having obtained the Lefranc prize in 1966, he is shown at the exhibition “12 super realists” at the Del Leone gallery, Venice, where he discovers the works of American “pop” artists, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann. In 1968 he starts working with Plexiglas and then continues with a series of paintings “aux escargots” (with snails). In the 1970’s he moves to Paris and is also shown in numerous international exhibitions, one of them was dedicated to the school of Nice a the Pompidou Center, Paris. The degenerative disorder he was subject to finally caught up with him and obliges him to be in a wheelchair. He starts working tirelessly and develops works in cut iron, notably for outdoor pieces and monumental sculptures.

Philippe Druillet

With his well-known comic books Lone Sloane or Xcalibur, his participation to the iconic comic magazines Pilote or Humanoïdes Associés, the elaboration of 3D animation and even drawing and making entire film sets, Philippe Druillet (born in Toulouse in 1944) has pulled us into his own universe and opened new windows to the “9th art”. He is a unique author who will influence Jean Giraud in the evolution of his alter ego Moebius and Georges Lucas in the graphic conception of Star Wars. As a pioneer artist he is one of the milestones of our visual universe. A true genius of comic book making and a myth in the universe of science fiction, he is still today a great source of inspiration and a major influence to entire generations.

Li Lihong

Born in 1974 in Jingdezhen, a city that has been considered for centuries as the world capital of porcelain, LI LIHONG started his training of the arts of ceramics at a very young age under the supervision of the great master Qin Xiling. Even if his work finds inspiration in the traditional royal porcelains, that have made the reputation of his village, Li Lihong conceives his works with a completely contemporary approach. He reinvents Chinese porcelain in a radical manner; after having taken in all the different international influences that the Chinese assimilated after the implantation on their territory of worldwide firms such as Coca-Cola or Mac Donald’s in the 1980’s.

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".