To imagine his sculptures, Philippe Hiquily realized many study drawings.\u00a0These drawings enabled him year after year not only to study the overall\u00a0composition of the work to be made but also to work out formal research or\u00a0visual marker (composition axis, equilibrium axis, articulations, …), essential\u00a0for the constitution of the work. These drawings are most of the time sketched\u00a0on notebooks, whose pages are displayed on the walls, or on papers or cardboards\u00a0found by the artist at the time the idea arose. They are precious and inescapable\u00a0testimonies of the artists creative process. These examples only represent\u00a0a glimpse of thousands of sketches and research produced by the artist, some
\nhaving disappeared while others have been scattered, sold or offered by the artist\u00a0to his friends and relatives.<\/p>\n
This work is listed in the Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the artist under the reference number: 929 – 99.Des.ReA.PU.Aq-E.40<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in 1953,\u00a0Philippe Hiquily<\/strong>\u00a0quickly detached himself from academic sculpture to develop his technique of \u00abdirect metal\u00bb inspired by Julio Gonz\u00e1lez. More than half century, he explored the work of metal (iron, brass, bronze, steel) in all its forms and he develops a unique sculptural language around his favorite themes of women, balance and movement.<\/p>\n Like Alexander Calder, whom he admired, Philippe HIQUILY is also famous for his monumental sculptures that have shaped the French and international public space since the 1960s, such as his Girouettes (Weather Vanes) designed for a 12m high project in Marbella (Spain) and Shanghai (China) or his legendary 6 meters Marathonienne set up in 1981 in Vitry sur Seine.<\/p>\n Hiquily has created a protective image of woman – dual, enigmatic, universal and experimented for a time with motorized, moving sculptures. It identifies his unified journey with an emblematic work that places To imagine his sculptures, Philippe Hiquily realized many study drawings.\u00a0These drawings enabled him year after year not only to study the overall\u00a0composition of the work to be made but also to work out formal research or\u00a0visual marker (composition axis, equilibrium axis, articulations, …), essential\u00a0for the constitution of the work. These drawings are most of the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[100],"product_tag":[383],"class_list":{"0":"post-11159","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-drawing","7":"product_tag-philippe-hiquily-en-2","8":"product_shipping_class-photoframed-painting-small-size","9":"pa_annee-1999-en","10":"pa_medium-aquarelle-en","11":"pa_medium-encre-de-chine-en","12":"pa_signature-signed-hiquily","13":"pa_support-paper","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"taxable","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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