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Anis Nabil Harbaoui
Summer selection / À première vue
Group exhibition
12/06/2025 - 30/08/2025
Space N°4, Space 3 bis
The Loft Gallery will be closed in August. The entire team wishes you a wonderful summer. Join us starting Tuesday, September 2nd.
The Loft Gallery will be closed in August. The entire team wishes you a wonderful summer. Join us starting Tuesday, September 2nd.
If you’re in Paris this summer, don’t miss the exhibition trail displayed in gallery windows throughout Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Galerie Loft is showcasing the work of Anis Nabil Harbaoui, a 2024 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Through drawing, ink, and painting, the artist explores his vision of figuration in an age of relentless technological advancement, questioning realities that are both tangible and alternative. His works will be on view all summer in the window of Galerie Loft.
Galerie Loft presents a group exhibition featuring works by Bernard Quentin, Christos Kalfas, Parvine Curie, Francesco Marino Di Teana, Jiang Dahai, Liên Hoàng-Xuân, Guillaume Piéchad, Kévin-Ademola Sangosanya, Philippe Hiquily, Wang Keping, Yang Liming, Quiberon and Yang Jie-Chang.
On the occasion of the event "À première vue", which invites galleries in Saint-Germain-des-Prés to showcase recent graduates from the Beaux-Arts de Paris over the summer, Galerie LOFT has chosen to present the work of Anis Nabil Harbaoui, who graduated in 2024.
In his works—created in pencil, ink, or paint—Anis Nabil Harbaoui shares his vision of figuration in an age of relentless technological progress, exploring realities that are both concrete and alternative. Drawing inspiration from reality and his surroundings, he offers a vision of a world in a state of perpetual agony.
Taking a realistic approach, his work oscillates between critique and celebration of contemporary societies, raising questions about the conflicts they endure and the plagues they inevitably generate. Rich in references, his practice draws on them to probe the state of the world at the dawn of the 21st century.
Artists
Guillaume Piéchaud
Guillaume Piéchaud is a French sculptor and designer. Born in 1968, he graduated from the École Boulle (an historical reference amid art and design schools in Europe) in 1988, where he attended engraving techniques of precious metal. He has worked with famous jewelry designers for eight years, creating collections in collaboration with the most important craftsmen and luxury brands.
Wang Keping
Wang Keping is one of the most eminent members of Stars Art Group (xing xing 星星画会) , a foundational movement of the contemporary Chinese avant-garde active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His wood sculptures blackened by fire and were firstly inspired by totem and by idols who reminded of folkloric tutelary figures in north of China and in Korean. Then his creation turned to the simple formes with the themes : women wearing a bun, kiss/couple, bird, masculine figures with tail, and a pair of teat. The simplification and purification were embodied in his sculptures, moreover, in the best cases reminded of Constantin Brancusi’s works.
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.
Anis Nabil Harbaoui
In his work—whether in pencil, ink, or paint—Nabil Harbaoui shares his vision of figuration in the era of relentless technological progress and speculates on realities that are both concrete and alternative. Drawing inspiration from reality and his surroundings, he presents a vision of a world in a state of perpetual agony. In a pursuit of realism, he blurs the lines between critique and celebration of contemporary societies, questioning the conflicts that divide them and the plagues they inevitably carry. Deeply attached to references, he weaves them into his work, raising numerous questions about the state of the world at the beginning of the 21st century.
Liên Hoàng-Xuân
Liên Hoàng-Xuân, an artist of Vietnamese, Tunisian and French origin, was born in Paris in 1995. Multi-disciplinary, her installations, paintings, prints and videos enable her to blend memories with a loving imagination in a fictional city she calls the "South of Nowhere": a blend of Tunis, Saigon and Beirut.
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".
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.
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.
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.