Monaco-Sculptures invites visitors to a unique experience: discovering a wide panorama of contemporary sculptural creation during an art walk in a dream setting. Take a walk with the major artists in Monaco.
Find the monumental sculptures of Philippe Hiquily and Claude Gilli on the traveling tour of Monaco-Sculptures.
This cultural event will take place until the end of July, in the famous locations of La Société des Bains de Mer and Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo. An open-air museum takes place in Monte-Carlo, from the gardens of Petite Afrique to the Saint-James, from Beaumarchais Square to the Hotel de Paris, the Hermitage and the Monte-Carlo Beach
Exhibition « Monaco-Sculptures » until 2 September 2022
The artist
Claude Gilli is a major figure of the “École de Nice” (School of Nice) that had a considerable impact on French pop art. Born in Nice in 1938, he enters the School of applied arts of his hometown in 1955. In 1962, on New Year’s Eve, he burns most of his early works. Close to the artists Albert Chubac, Martial Raysse, Ben, but also Arman, César, Farhi and Venet it’s his encounter with Robert Malaval that will lead to different works that they made in common around “aliment blanc”. Having obtained the Lefranc prize in 1966, he is shown at the exhibition “12 super realists” at the Del Leone gallery, Venice, where he discovers the works of American “pop” artists, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann. In 1968 he starts working with Plexiglas and then continues with a series of paintings “aux escargots” (with snails). In the 1970’s he moves to Paris and is also shown in numerous international exhibitions, one of them was dedicated to the school of Nice a the Pompidou Center, Paris. The degenerative disorder he was subject to finally caught up with him and obliges him to be in a wheelchair. He starts working tirelessly and develops works in cut iron, notably for outdoor pieces and monumental sculptures.
