Puisque tout passe
Philippe Huart
Spiritual Lines
Group exhibition
06/02/2025 - 30/03/2025
Space N°4, Space 3 bis
The exhibition "Traits d'esprit (Spiritual lines)" brings together the paper works of Francesco Marino Di Teana, Christos Kalfas, Philippe Huart, Joséphine de Saint-Seine and Yazid Oulab. This intimate journey to the heart of drawing highlights the diversity of their graphic creation.
The exhibition "Traits d'esprit (Spiritual lines)" brings together the paper works of Francesco Marino Di Teana, Christos Kalfas, Solène Kerlo, Philippe Huart, Joséphine de Saint-Seine and Yazid Oulab. This intimate journey to the heart of drawing highlights the diversity of their graphic creation.
Whether old, modern or contemporary, produced in watercolor, ink, pencil or from cut-outs, the work on paper has a particularly moving beauty, an imprint of fragility and intimacy. Each artist presents a singular universe: from Philippe Huart's "Detached Pieces" to the "Imaginary Landscapes" series by Joséphine de Saint-Seine, through the poetic compositions of Christos Kalfas and the explorations around the myths of the creation of the world by Yazid Oulab and Solène Kerlo. Francesco Marino Di Teana, for his part, with his refined geometric shapes, sublimates the “emptiness”, which he establishes as an active element playing on the tensions between verticality and horizontality.
Artists
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.
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.
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".
Josephine de Saint Seine
Joséphine de Saint-Seine, born in Paris in 1974, grew up in Apremont, a small village in Picardy and now lives and works in Marseille. She develops progressive work around the exploration of the origins of beings and the elements that make up our planet. It feeds on shapes and textures, materials and sensations, the symbolism of colors and the unpredictability of ink touching paper, lines and evanescence, but also the medicinal virtues of plants, the physical virtues and spiritual ones of modeling, and those, poetic and mental ones of writing.
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.
Solène Kerlo
Solène Kerlo's work is a quest for origins: it examines the relationship of modern humans to their roots and their mythological unconscious. Through her research, she delves into the myths of the world's creation, their motifs, and their symbols, seeking to uncover the primordial and universal story that nurtured and shaped human civilization during the earliest stages of its consciousness.