Girouette Printemps (Spring Weather Vane) H.2M
Philippe Hiquily
Narratives
Group exhibition
22/01/2026 - 28/02/2026
Space N°4
At the start of this year, Galerie Loft is pleased to present the exhibition "Narratives," an immersion into the world of narrative figuration. The paintings of Jacques Monory, Valerio Adami, Eduardo Arroyo, and Philippe Huart unfold visual narratives where colors, compositions, and symbols intertwine to tell unique stories.
At the start of this year, Galerie Loft is pleased to present the exhibition "Narratives," an immersion into the world of narrative figuration. The paintings of Jacques Monory, Valerio Adami, Eduardo Arroyo, and Philippe Huart unfold visual narratives where colors, compositions, and symbols intertwine to tell unique stories. In resonance with these works, the mobiles of Philippe Hiquily and the major sculptures of Francesco Marino Di Teana extend the narrative into the space through their poetic movements and refined forms.
Artists: Jacques Monory, Valerio Adami, Eduardo Arroyo, Philippe Huart, Philippe Hiquily, Francesco Marino Di Teana, and Quentin Garel
Artists
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".
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.
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."
Valerio Adami
Valerio Adami (born in 1935 in Bologna) is a major figure in European narrative figurative art. Very early on, he developed a unique pictorial language based on drawing, bold black lines, and image fragmentation. His work, enriched with literary, philosophical, and political references, moves away from simple descriptive narration to offer intellectual and symbolic painting.
Jacques Monory
Jacques Monory (1924–2018) is one of the major representatives of Narrative Figuration (Figuration narrative), a movement identified by critics as early as 1964, running parallel to American Pop Art. His highly complex body of work has sparked the interest and analysis of numerous intellectuals. Monory asserted a fundamentally dramatic vision of existence, fueled by current … Continued