Loft Selection• To Our Loves
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Group exhibition
As Valentine's Day draws near, we are offering an exhibition dedicated to love, with a focus on aesthetics.
As Valentine’s Day draws near, we are offering an exhibition dedicated to love, with a focus on aesthetics.
Claude Gilli’s pop love scenes, Arx Lee’s youthful passion for the universe, Mun Gi-Yang’s contemporary taste for caricatured luxury are displayed alongside Guillaume Piéchaud’s elegantly curved furniture and works by many other artists to be (re)discovered as soon as possible.
Artists: Arx Lee, Claude Gilli, Guillaume Piéchaud, Gustavo Urruty, Patrick Chelli, Philippe Hiquily, Philippe Huart, Marino Di Teana, Wang Keping, Yang Liming,
Les artistes
Arx Lee (Li Chaoxiong)
In research of the meaning of life, Li Chaoxiong (Arx Lee), a genius illustrator, gradually creates different poetic universes where the heroes and dreamers live. Li Chaoxiong, alias ARX LEE, is a Chinese artist who was born in 1978 in Zhongshan, Canton. In the end of 1990s, he begun to present his early works in group exhibitions in Canton, Beijing and Japan…
Claude Gilli
Claude Gilli is a leading artist from the Nice school who has greatly contributed to the affirmation of French pop art. Born in Nice in 1938, he entered the Decorative Art school in Nice in 1955. Between 1957 and 1959, during his first exhibitions at the Galerie de Longchamp, he befriended with Albert Chubac, Martial Raysse, then Ben at the inauguration of the…
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 Born in 1968, he graduated from the École Boulle (an historical reference amid art and design schools in Europe) in 1988, where he attended engraving techniques of precious metal.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. In parallel with his engraving work, Guillaume Piéchaud…
Gustavo Urruty
Gustavo Urruty was born in 1966 in the Argentine town of Chascomùs. Did his first studies until he became an Honorary Bachelor at the Cristo Rey Institute in Lezama. Painted since childhood. At the age of 11, he won the school drawing competition and took painting lessons. Student at the University of Philosophy and Letters of Buenos Aires (UBA), student…
Philippe Hiquily
Philippe Hiquily, a reluctant hero, came into this life on a path that would often tempt him to stray away under the onslaught of an unpredictable destiny. His incongruous endeavors seemingly deviating from the initial goal only appear to do so and actually push it forward in a single direction. His path reveals a unity captured by his work. An…
Philippe Huart
Philippe Huart was born in 1953 in Clamart (France). After studying at the Superior School of Modern Arts in Paris, he became an illustrator and graphic designer for literary and phonographic editions. In 1991, he decided to devote himself to painting and then participated in numerous exhibitions, individual or collective, in France and abroad. He was inspired by the effects…
Francesco Marino Di Teana
Francesco Marino Di Teana is a painter, sculptor, architect, poet and philosopher, who marked the sculpture of 1950s-1960s by developing his theories of the tri-unit logic, which integrates the “void” like an active element of the pictorial and architectural composition. Born in 1920, in a poor farmer family at a small village of Teana, perched on the hill of the…
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. Wang's wood sculptures and his early theatre play uncovered the political opponents’ detention conditions, which also gave rise to sharp polemics in the press in Taiwan and…
Yang Liming
Yang Liming was born in 1975 and graduated from the Sichuan Art School, but quickly broke away from that, as called the "Sichuan mei yuan Situation", a phenomenon which leads most artists of this generation, originally from this province, to this situation and produce similar and not very innovative works. In the early 2000s, Yang Liming decided to study Western…