Couple H.220cm
Wang Keping
Monumental • Inauguration of sculpture garden
Group exhibition
04/07/2025 - 14/09/2025
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Galerie LOFT is delighted to inaugurate its MONUMENTAL Sculpture Garden — a space dedicated to monumental art, nestled in the heart of nature. This project celebrates four decades of passionate commitment to sculpture, through the promotion of major 20th-century artists and contemporary talents.
Jean-François Roudillon and the entire LOFT Gallery team are pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the Sculpture Garden.
Friday, July 4, 2025 • 3 pm – 6 pm
Saturday, July 5, 2025 • 2 pm – 7 pm
4 pm Speech and presentation followed by a cocktail reception
LIVE painting by Kévin-Ademola Sangosanya
In Fourges (27630)
15 km from Giverny
Featuring works by JEAN BRILLANT, CÉSAR, MAURO CORDA, PHILIPPE DRUILLET, PARVINE CURIE, MARINO DI TEANA, LA FRATRIE, QUENTIN GAREL, PHILIPPE HIQUILY, DANIEL HOURDÉ, CHRISTOS KALFAS, WANG KEPING, SÉBASTIEN KITO, SHENGQI KONG, SOL LEWITT, LI LIHONG, YAZID OULAB, GUILLAUME PIÉCHAUD, BERNARD QUENTIN, RICHARD TEXIER, MUN-GI YANG …
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Galerie LOFT is delighted to inaugurate its MONUMENTAL Sculpture Garden — a space dedicated to monumental art, nestled in the heart of nature. This project celebrates four decades of passionate commitment to sculpture, through the promotion of major 20th-century artists and contemporary talents.
Since the 2000s, Galerie LOFT has stood out on the international scene with emblematic projects such as Les Champs de la Sculpture on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the sculpture park at the Al Maaden Golf Resort in Morocco (featuring works by Antonio Seguí, Philippe Hiquily, Yazid Oulab, Wang Keping, Sunil Gawde, Daniel Hourdé, and Claude Gilli), and the Shanghai World Expo, where the permanent installation of Philippe Hiquily’s 12-meter-high Weather Vanes left a lasting impression.
Nearly twelve years of work have also been devoted to the creation of the Catalogue Raisonné for two major artists: Philippe Hiquily and Francesco Marino Di Teana — now essential references for collectors and art enthusiasts.
Remaining true to its mission of supporting contemporary creation, Galerie LOFT continues its exploration of the monumental alongside artists such as Parvine Curie, Sébastien Kito, Quentin Garel, La Fratrie, Bernard Quentin, Mauro Corda, Kong Shengqi, Philippe Druillet and Yazid Oulab. This new Sculpture Garden extends that vision, offering a moving immersion into the power and poetry of art in dialogue with nature.
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Artists
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
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.
Parvine Curie
Parvine Curie was born in Nancy in 1936, of French-Iranian origin. After her studies she left to visit Europe and decided to settle in Barcelona in 1957, discovering Catalan art. She practiced sculpture as an autodidact, following the advice of sculptor Marcel Marti with whom she had a son, David in 1959. In 1970, she moved to Paris and presented at the young sculpture salon, the work Première Mère, which marked the sculptor François Stahly. He invites her to come and work alongside him at the collective workshop in Crestet (Vaucluse). Parvine learns the basics of the trade, sculpts wood and stone. She married Stahly in 1975 and subsequently carried out numerous public commissions. Her work, which was initially more hieratic, then evolved into a more dynamic style. Her sculptures, between figures and architecture, and strongly inspired by the places she visited, are marked by pure lines and materials and testify to her constant desire to question space and light.
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."
Mauro Corda
The Sculptor MAURO CORDA, of Sardinian origin and born in Lourdes in 1960, has followed sculpture courses at the School of Fine Arts of Reims and then the School of Fine Arts of Paris before obtaining a scholarship to pursue his apprenticeship at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He is an heir of the great tradition of classical sculpture, claiming his affiliation to some great masters whilst also considering that art must question our modern societies.
Mun-gi Yang
Mun-gi Yang, born in Gwang-Ju in South Korea, graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts at Chosun University. In 2012, sculptor-artist presented his exhibition Story of Luxury Stone at Okgwa Art Museum in South Korea. Although it seems like these Luxury stones are at first parodic objects of Chinese counterfeit handbags of famous brands, such as Louis Vuitton and Chanel, they go beyond a simple imitation or representation of these objects. Through the characteristics of stone-made items, the useful function of bag disappeared. The object loses its useful features and is now transformed into a symbol, an icon.
Sébastien Kito
Born of a French mother, and raised in France, Sébastien Kito has shown a desire to explore the culture of his other country, Japan, and has conceived an original way of thinking based on this confrontation of his dual origins. He is currently investigating form and color through mobile, articulated and hollowed-out sculptures, often bearing anthropomorphic or animal reminiscences. His sculptures are a playful invitation to join the space occupied by the work, or to transform it by moving one of the parts of the evolving structure.
Jean Brillant
Link between men, between peoples, between cultures, but also with nature. Link between materials and shapes, time and the ephemeral. Despite our impressions, time never stops. It glides over our lives and over the world, like a promise to make each moment a magical and unique interlude.
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.
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.