Statut: Represented

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.

Ofer Lellouche lives and works between Tel Aviv and Paris. For many years, his work is championed by the renowned art dealer Jan Krugier through the Krugier-Ditesheim Gallery in Geneva. Today, he is represented by Ditesheim & Maffei in Neuchâtel and the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. 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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Participation in Art Brussels with the Galerie La Forest Divonne, from April 24 to 27, 2025. 

Selected for the “Monumental Artworks” pathway curated by Carine Fol as part of Art Brussels 2025.

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Solo exhibition “The Memory of Life”, from Thursday March 13 to Saturday May 10, 2025 at Galerie La Forest Divonne Bruxelles.

Group exhibition in the Project Room of the Galerie La Forest Divonne Brussels, from March 6 to April 5, 2025. 

Participation in Art Brussels with the Galerie La Forest Divonne, from April 24 to 27, 2025. 

Belgian sculptor Catherine François, born in 1963, is renowned for her sometimes monumental bronzes.

If there is one guiding principle in the work of Catherine François over the last ten years, it is a cross, or rather an intersection, a meeting. Catherine François collects intersecting lines. She captures them everywhere, all the time, starting with photographs. She probably has hundreds, perhaps thousands. Encounters – or shocks – are everywhere for those who know how to see them. And Catherine François is a sounding board – paradoxically, she whose silhouette is more reminiscent of a reed in the wind, long and slender. Her apparent fragility hides a great strength, the strength of the nature she listens to, feels and vibrates to. You have to see her apply this strength to bronze, to this forged material, which she sculpts, girdles and polishes.

The Van Buuren Museum has devoted two retrospectives to him, in 2007 and 2012, and the prestigious Prisme publishing house has published a major monograph in 2021.

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Group exhibition in the Project Room of the Galerie La Forest Divonne Brussels, from March 6 to April 5, 2025. 

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris – in the studio of Georges Jeanclos – Valérie Delarue also pursued artistic training in Oackland, USA – in the studio of Viola Frey. She lives and works in Paris and the Yonne region.
Following photographic projects and video-performances on the theme of hair and dance, she returned to sculptural work with ceramics, a field she practices with real virtuosity and which has become a benchmark.

This intimate knowledge of the technical subtleties of the ceramic medium has enabled her to embrace two approaches that have become fundamental to her: that of the energy of the body leaving imprints in the clay, and that of the gestures of creation interpreted as a danced body-in-body with the material. These are all metaphors for vital energy, but also for a personal liberation in which sensuality is important.

“Valérie Delarue’s art consists in resolving conflicting forces into a harmonious whole. Alongside ceramic sculpture, she is renewing a relevant dialogue with drawing, with her dazzling art of pastel, through which she brings to life the dawn of a reconciled world, where human and mineral seem to be able to finally come together in an indistinct unity.”
– Frédéric Bodet, Curator of collections, Art critic, Exhibition curator

 

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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“Masculin Féminin”, La beauté dans l’Art du 17e à nos jours, Tomaselli Collection, 17 september till 08 May 2025, Lyon, France

Group exhibition, “L’art de la fleur à Lyon”, Tomaselli Collection, from March 18 to September 27, 2025.

Group exhibition in the Project Room of  the Galerie La Forest Divonne Brussels, from March 6 to April 5, 2025. 

Luxe, Calme et Volupté at the Malmaison in Cannes, from January 31 to April 20, 2025.

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