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“I don’t do abstract sculpture. I have always looked for the human in sculpture”
The works of Parvine Curie have a double essence, that of an intimate monumentality which imposes itself through its forms, as much as it attracts and reassures us. The sculpture practice of this artist who was the companion of François Stahly has never ceased to embody her great sensitivity as a woman and mother and has gradually evolved over the course of a life rich in travel and discoveries. Her works are thus marked by the visual, formal, but also spiritual force of the architectures of many cultures which fascinate her. Her love for Spain, and more specifically Catalonia where she lived for a long time, marked her personal history as much as her artistic career and was paramount in the creation of the artist’s major works. This Character “Cadac”, a proud and elegant totem, symbolizes the preponderant place that this small village of Cadaquès still occupies today in the artist’s heart where she likes to recharge her batteries.
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1988 – ED. 2022
Painted cast metal – white or black
H. 30 x W. 9 x D. 8 cm – 3100 g.
Signed and numbered at 99 ex.
Dimensions of the box with protective case: H. 36 x L. 14.5 x D. 10.5 cm
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“To introduce the movement is to create life”
Movement has always been a key question in Philippe Hiquily’s work. In the same line of thought of his mobiles and fountains, that he already starts creating at the end of the 50’s, he makes in 1963 a trio of monumental weathervanes of 12 meters high that he installs on the beach of Elvira (Marbella, Spain). Work that he then reinterprets 30 years later when asked by the city of Shanghai to make a monumental project on the occasion of the World Expo 2010. After the success that this work meets, the artist conceives a series of weathervanes, such as Girouette Hiver (Winter Wathervane) that he will make in the high of 5 meters. In front of these mobile works our relationship to sculpture if completely upturned. Our aesthetic experience is not only lived thru contemplation but also by our participation. The artist invites us to play with the work, thus mocking the instructions « do not touch » common in the art world. As it joins the Art For All collection next to the Marathonienne and the Épicurienne, the weathervane is declined in a very accessible format of 18 cm high that still preserves the poetry and magic of her monumental equivalent, and more than ever her playfulness.
Edition “ART FOR ALL” by Galerie Loft 2011 – Ed. 2022 Black painted stainless steel H.18,5 x 11 x 8 cm – 95 gr Signed at the bottom and numbered 1000 copies. Box dimensions (with protective case): H. 23 x L. 17 x W. 9 cm.
Video
Discover artist Philippe Hiquily and the story behind his sculpture “Girouette Hiver”.
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“This work is the most perfect and harmonious form created by Marino di Teana. The balance established here between mass and space is incomparable: we see the effect produced by two halves close together but not face to face, separated by a space which, in their interval, becomes geometric, shapeless and timeless because the shape is given to it by the contrast of the opposing masses”.
From the 1960s, Marino di Teana began a real work of exploration around the shape of the circle. He initially endeavored to break them down before creating the sculpture “Aube” in 1977, the most telling example of his tri-unitarian theory “1 + 1 = 3”. In this work, which marks a real plastic and aesthetic maturity of the artist, the energies are concentrated to the maximum, crystallized in the heart of a space charged with all the density and power of the composition. Like the sunrise it evokes, it traces a ray of light, a hyphen linking sky and earth, lines and masses, voids and solids. Having become an iconic sculpture by the artist, it was produced in several sizes, notably in monumental format (Le Havre, Height 4m 50) before being available today in the Art for All collection.
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“ART FOR ALL” edition by Galerie Loft,
1977 – Ed. 2021,
H.11 x W.10 x D.2 cm – 570 g,
Cast metal with black patina,
Signed with the artist’s stamp on the bottom and numbered at 300 ex.
Dimensions of the box with protective case: 15 x 15 x 4.5 cm.
Video
Marino di Teana’s 1 + 1 = 3 tri-unit theory will hold no secrets for you!
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“When I discovered sculpture, I found a kind of strength that pushed me to define a form that is close to a “mother compartment”, both architecture and character. I don’t do abstract sculpture. I have always looked for the human in sculpture”, Parvine Curie, interviews with Scarlett Reliquet.
The works of Parvine Curie bear two essences, that of monumentality and intimacy. They impose themselves by shapes that attract us and reassure us. If her prac- tice of sculpture has evolved during her rich life of tra- vels and discoveries, she has never ceased to incarnate her great sensibility as a woman and a mother. It is not by accident that many of her works integrate this theme. Theses mothers are real cabin-ships that sym- bolise a transcended mother, powerful and protecting.
In the work Sheltered child (L’enfant abrité) we can particularly find this strength. Her keenness for slender forms brings us to mind a refuge as well as the reassuring comfort of a united family, and we can’t help to have a moving thought for her son, the poet David Martí who died in 2007. The choice of integrating this work to the Art For All collection is not trivial. It proves once more the richness of contemporary sculpture and its impact on our modern society.
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2007 – Ed. 2021,
Painted cast metal Black or white
H. 14 x W. 14 x D. 11 cm – 2700 g.
Signed on the side Numbered at 300 ex.
Dimensions of the box with protective case: H. 20 x W. 20 x D. 15 cm
Video
Find out more about L’enfant abrité, a work in which Parvine Curie transcribes a powerful and infinite love.
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“To introduce the movement is to create life”
Movement has always been a key question in Philippe Hiquily’s work. In the same line of thought of his mo- biles and fountains, that he already starts creating at the end of the 50’s, he makes in 1963 a trio of monumental weathervanes of 12 meters high that he installs on the beach of Elvira (Marbella, Spain). Work that he then reinterprets 30 years later when asked by the city of Shanghai to make a monumental project on the oc- casion of the World Expo 2010. After the success that this work meets, the artist conceives a series of wea- thervanes, such as Girouette Hiver (Winter Wather- vane) that he will make in the high of 5 meters. In front of these mobile works our relationship to sculpture if completely upturned. Our aesthetic experience is not only lived thru contemplation but also by our partici- pation. The artist invites us to play with the work, thus mocking the instructions « do not touch » common in the art world. As it joins the Art For All collection next to the Marathonienne and the Épicurienne, the weathervane is declined in a very accessible format of 18 cm high that still preserves the poetry and magic of her monumental equivalent, and more than ever her playfulness.
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Edition “ART FOR ALL” by Galerie Loft
2011 – Ed. 2020
Black painted stainless steel
H.18 x 12 x 7 cm- 85 gr.
Signed at the bottom and numbered 1000 copies.
Box dimensions (with protective case): H. 23 x L. 17 x W. 9 cm
Video
Discover artist Philippe Hiquily and the story behind his sculpture “Girouette Hiver”.
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« Let us hasten to succumb to temptation, before it strays. »
As a voluptuous hedonist, one of the last of the sculptures made by Philippe Hiquily observes us with curiosity and gentleness from her slender silhouette. This Épicurienne (Epicurean), a direct counterpart of the mythical sculpture by the artist : Marathonienne (Marathoner), evokes with serenity the completion of the incredible plastic journey made by the artist throughout the twentieth century during which he never ceased to explore the forms and curves of female figures with charm, poetry and humour, as if to better capture and extract their sensuality.
Pretty and nonchalant, caught in a moment of serenity and of pure ecstasy, she offers herself to the pleasure of the eyes, one arm raised as if to better reveal her breasts while her hand chastely caresses her knees, delicately clasped.
But is she really wise or just relaxed and satiated after having reached climax ? As she now joins the Art For All collection in small format, we can now all decide of her destiny… in the palm of our hands.
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Edition “Art For All” by Galerie Loft Paris
1981 – Ed.2020,
Black painted cast metal,
H.16 x 8 x 8 cm, 208 grams,
Dim. of the box : 21,2 x 12,5 x 9,5 cm,
Certificate of authenticity included. Signed and numbered on the side. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Video
Discover the story of Philippe Hiquily’s Epicurienne!
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Philippe Hiquily liked to explore the shapes of women and flirt with their natural sensuality. His metal work, muscled in the hammering of iron sheets, very deman- ding in the layout of the balance, carnal in the drawing of the anatomy but tender and lascivious in the final polish of the volumes, from the iron or steel sheets would emerge utterly charming compositions full of poetry and humor.
Initially conceived in 1981 as a 6-meter-high monu- mental sculpture, Marathonienne, (Marathoner) has now become one of Philippe Hiquily’s most iconic sculptures. At the Centre of many cultural events in Europe and all over the world and revealed to a wide audience thanks to the American television seriesBillons, she impresses us by the softness of her curves and the eroticism of her figure that contrasts with the rigor of her composition (the perfect geometry of a circle divided in 3 angles of 120°on a central axis). This modern sports woman immortalized in an ultimate moment of grace, both strong and untameable, is rendered vulnerable by the stolen moment in which she seems suspended. Generally presented in monumental formats, the marathon runner has found it’s way into a small format for the Art For All collection, thus proving again that the grace of her shapes has no limits.
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Edition “ART FOR ALL” by Galerie Loft,
Black painted cast metal,
H. 16 x L. 11,5 x P. 6 cm – 145 gr.
Signed and numbered on the side. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Size of the box (with protective case): H. 20,5 x L. 15 x P. 10 cm.
Certificate of authenticity included
Video
Didier Viltart, director of Ferus Gallery, presents the story of Philippe Hiquily’s Marathonienne.