{"id":8496,"date":"2019-05-23T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/expositions\/francesco-marino-di-teana-%e2%80%a2-philippe-hiquily-catalogues-raisonnes-sculpteurs-deraisonnables\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:42:37","slug":"francesco-marino-di-teana-philippe-hiquily-catalogues-raisonnes-sculpteurs-deraisonnables","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/exhibitions\/francesco-marino-di-teana-philippe-hiquily-catalogues-raisonnes-sculpteurs-deraisonnables\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalogues Raisonn\u00e9s Sculpteurs D\u00e9raisonnables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Note well that most of the things that give us pleasure are unreasonable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Montesquieu<\/p>\n<p>It was probably a love of the artist rather than reason that led Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roudillon in 2006 to undertake the creation of the Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the sculptor Philippe Hiquily. Its publication six years later proved the value of such an undertaking. To convey the breadth of the work and the diversity of an artist who, only a few years earlier, was still little known to the general public, there could be no shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>Building on this experience, the conclusion was simple: why not pursue this bold endeavor to reveal another artist of this generation, Francesco Marino Di Teana?<\/p>\n<p>Today, it has been achieved. Twelve years of research, inventory, and photography. Twelve years of labor and rigor. That was probably what it took for these two men he admired so deeply. Sculptors of different temperaments and singular works, yet united by the same passion for working with metal. The hand as a shaping tool: hammering, welding, sanding, patinating\u2014relentlessly, tirelessly\u2014with strength, humor, and precision.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond reason itself.<\/p>\n<p>Their works, presented face to face, reveal as much about their character and personality as about an era: that of the heirs of Julio Gonz\u00e0lez, lovers of iron and steel\u2014metal artists freed from rigid conceptions of sculpture, free&#8230;and reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remarquez bien que la plupart des choses qui nous font plaisir sont d\u00e9raisonnables.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8529,"template":"","class_list":["post-8496","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/8496","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\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}