{"id":5539,"date":"2015-06-04T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/exhibition\/philippe-hiquily-19-sept-au-8-nov-2008-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:19:27","slug":"philippe-hiquily-19-sept-au-8-nov-2008","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/exhibitions\/philippe-hiquily-19-sept-au-8-nov-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippe HIQUILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Galerie Loft and its director Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roudillon are pleased to present a must-see exhibition dedicated to the artist Philippe Hiquily.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of C\u00e9sar Baldaccini, Albert Camus, and Man Ray, Philippe Hiquily is one of the most important artists in the history of 20th-century sculpture. He successfully navigated artistic and commercial trends while positioning himself as the pioneer of a movement he called &#8220;direct metal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His works, with their erotic and dreamlike forms, have been exhibited around the world, particularly in the United States, where he achieved his first successes in the 1960s and are held in public collections such as the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, the Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Fonds National d&#8217;Art Contemporain at La D\u00e9fense, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition presents a selection of historical works reflecting the artist&#8217;s entire career. Original iron sculptures and paintings on <em>tapas\u00a0<\/em>created during his last trip to Tahiti will be exhibited at Galerie Loft from September 19 to November 8, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The opening reception will take place on Thursday, September 18, in the presence of the artist, starting at 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Galerie Loft is also currently preparing the artist&#8217;s catalogue raisonn\u00e9, directed by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roudillon, with the collaboration of Juliette Belfiore, Aude Crozet, and Malika Vinot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galerie Loft and its director Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roudillon are pleased to present a must-see exhibition dedicated to the artist Philippe Hiquily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3371,"template":"","class_list":["post-5539","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}