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Art Paris – Galerie La Forest Divonne from the 9th to the 12th of April 2026
Tout est politique ! Fondation Francès Senlis, France – February 21 to April 11, 2026
Diseuses du silence, Espace Monte-Cristo Paris,France – April 18 to December 13, 2026
Les énergies de la terre, Kéramis Museum, La Louvière, Belgium – summer 2026
Rachel Labastie (born in 1978), sculptor and performer, works with ceramics, weaving and many unusual materials such as raw clay, wicker and ashes. Her art is both deeply rooted in the material and very rich conceptually. Through her artistic practice, she pursues the search for a profound truth about humanity, sometimes buried under the weight of history and often under the artifice of our lives. Through a wide variety of worlds and materials, Rachel Labastie invites us to immerse ourselves in what connects humanity, in what connects us across time to our history and our nature.
Her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in 2021-2022. It has been shown at the Maison Rouge, the FRACs Auvergne, Hauts de France and Nouvelle Aquitaine (MECA), the Le Magasin d’art centre in Grenoble, the Huarte Art Centre in Spain, the TMAG in Hobart, Tasmania, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, the Kéramis Museum in La Louvière (BE), the ICEC in Istanbul, the Château des Adhémar and the Château du Rivau, the Espace Doual’art in Cameroon, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Fondation Bernard Magrez, the Transpalette art centre, and more recently at the Centre d’art le Parvis in Tarbes, La Banque Béthune and the hortillonnages in Amiens. Recent monograph published by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Abbaye de Maubuisson, text by Michel Draguet.
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Born in Tunisia in 1947, Ofer Lellouche moves to Paris with his family at the age of 14, for political reasons. He studies mathematics and physics at the Collège Saint-Louis. In 1966, two months before his final exams, he abruptly leaves France, fleeing a traumatic experience, and settles in Israel. There, he discovers a deep attachment to the country and its language.
During his military service, he takes part in the Six-Day War and the “War of Attrition.” He then falls seriously ill and is discharged. It is during his convalescence that he turns to painting—a visceral and vital gesture. He trains with Yehezkiel Streichman, a major figure in lyrical abstraction, at the Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv. He later returns to Paris, where he deepens his study of sculpture in César’s studio, while also earning a master’s degree in literature focused on the work of Stéphane Mallarmé.
Pierre Restany dedicates several texts to his work, highlighting his ability to express a universal interiority through rigorously constructed forms. His work is exhibited in numerous international institutions, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and more recently, in a major retrospective at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.
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Art Brussels 2026, from Thursday 23 April to Sunday 26 April 2026.
Jean-Marie Bytebier (1963) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). He lives and works in Ghent. His painting is part of the tradition of great landscape artists, particularly Flemish, but also Italian and British. Bytebier embraces the historical legacy of this essential subject in Western art, while offering a deeply contemporary perspective: through his compositions, formats, and textures, which immerse the viewer in a space that is both familiar and mysterious, airy and floating. The large recurring white bands in his paintings emphasise the role of the painting as a “window”, although here it does not open onto a perspective, but rather onto an inner, intimate, and spiritual emotion.
Jean-Marie Bytebier won the prestigious Young Belgian Painting Award in 1988. He has exhibited, among other places, at the Abbey of Fontevraud, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Bozar), the Grand Hornu, and the Ixelles Museum which dedicated a solo exhibition to him in 2016.
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Art Brussels 2026, from Thursday 23 April to Sunday 26 April 2026.
Valérie Delarue entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris as a painter, before quickly joining the sculpture studio of Georges Jeanclos. During her studies, she completed an artistic program in Oakland, in the United States, working in Viola Frey’s studio, where she first became acquainted with ceramics.
Deeply moved by a project inspired by Nicolas Poussin’s forest undergrowth—an experience that brought her back to the Sarthois woods of her childhood—she discovered the practice of clay. This encounter led her, upon graduating from the Beaux-Arts in 1995, to devote herself to ceramics, a medium that has captivated her ever since.
Over time, Valérie Delarue has developed an intimate and expert understanding of the technical subtleties of ceramics. Today, she is regarded as a leading figure in her field.
“Plunging one’s hands into clay is to build and preserve a world of one’s own, sheltered from the frenzy that surrounds us. It is an animal, carnal act, where gesture brings life forth and, in doing so, reconnects with the human.”
— Valérie Delarue
“All of Valérie Delarue’s art consists in resolving conflicting forces into a harmonious whole. Alongside her ceramic sculpture, she renews a meaningful dialogue with drawing, and through her dazzling mastery of pastel she brings forth the dawn of a reconciled world, where the human and the mineral ultimately seem able to come together in a single, indistinct unity.”
— Frédéric Bodet, Collection Curator, Art Critic, Exhibition Curator
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Born in 1962, Kuijpers is a Flemish artist, sculptor and designer based in Mechelen.
He is famous for his very pure use of stone and steel. He transforms the most massive and crude of materials into an almost featherweight, taking advantage of their inner qualities to manipulate them. Through his works, Kuijpers shows us the eternity contained in a block of marble, and awakens in us the geological memory that links man to the universe.
“A hunter of stones and poet of recomposed nature, Gerard Kuijpers has designed two veritable mineral ballets for Fontainebleau. Presented in majesty, like so many treasures and precious stones, the Dancing Stones seem to defy the laws of gravity and escape the earth’s attraction with their swing. Their asteroid dance imbues their surroundings with wonder. Taken from active European quarries, they evoke both the art of building and the poetry of ruins, lending the garden an almost magical atmosphere.” Jean Marc Dimanche, p. 26, BeauxArts Magazine, Hors série, May 2023.
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Art Brussels 2026, from Thursday 23 April to Sunday 26 April 2026.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in the late 1970s, Patrice Giorda soon began exhibiting in French and foreign galleries and institutions. Since the 1980s, his works have been part of the most important national collections in France, including the Centre Pompidou.
In his painting, powerful and contrasted, where the golden light builds the space of the canvas, the symbolic representation of nature or man goes beyond simple landscapes, scenes, portraits or still lifes: reality is enriched by the memory and permanence of a quest that Giorda qualifies as “digging of the being”. He attunes the untunable: the dazzling beauty of light and color, and the depth of the shadows of solitude.
Giorda seems almost to take up this dialogue with painting of the past: “The image,” he writes, “is always of the order of the drawing: you have to take the risk of losing its structures and representation to penetrate the world of painting, in order to find your subject, but this time from within. Light is born when color ceases to exist and becomes space.” Beyond the painted flight of steps or the small stone arch nestling in the violet shadow, the memory of a child lurks. Only the painter knows the twists and turns. And the secrets.”
Laurent Boudier, “Retour au pensionnat”, 1996
