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Autre Rivages, solo exhibition, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, April 16 – June 6, 2026
Book signing event, Monographie, Éditions Skira (2025), Librairie Skira, 28 rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, March 19, 2026

Born in 1958 to an Argentine mother and a Franco-British father, Guy de Malherbe lives and works between his two studios in Paris and the Vallée du Loir. In his youth, he was strongly influenced by the work of Dalí, which he discovered as a child in Cadaqués, fascinated by the steep rocks plunging into the sea. Later, the coastline of the Costa Brava, the cliffs of Étretat in Normandy, and the glaciers of Perito Moreno in Argentina would become his favorite subjects—onto which he projects his inner world, building a highly gestural painting style, with a thick, sensual texture.

Many art historians have written about his work, including Olivier Kaeppelin, Pierre Wat, Claude Frontisi, Alain Bonfand, Olivier Delavallade, as well as the writers Franck Maubert, Patrick Cloux, and the poet Luis Mizón. Their perspectives shed light on the Surrealist lineage of his work—initially influenced by the worlds of Dalí and Buñuel—but from which he gradually distanced himself over the course of his career, retaining only a deep fascination with the mineral world. Deeply rooted in matter and in the pleasure of gesture, Guy de Malherbe’s work appears, in the words of these authors, as an intellectually dense painting practice, rich with references to art history and nourished by the subconscious.

Guy de Malherbe’s works are part of national collections (CNAP, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and many museums have devoted solo exhibitions to his work: Musée du Mans, Musée d’Évreux, Musée de Trouville, Abbaye de l’Épau, and the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. His work has also been regularly exhibited in the United States. He is represented in Switzerland by Galerie Ditesheim-Mafféi, and in France and Belgium by Galerie La Forest Divonne.

Last summer, Le Grand Manège in Vendôme organized a major solo exhibition of his work, bringing together more than a hundred paintings and around thirty works on paper. This year, the prestigious publishing house Skira is preparing a substantial monograph retracing his entire career, while Les Éditions L’Atelier Contemporain are working on the publication of his studio “notes,” scheduled for release at the end of 2025.

 

 

French artist, born in 1946, who is a painter, sculptor and designer. In the 1970s, he designed furniture for Pierre Cardin and created the acronym for his famous «Espace», where the great couturier regularly exhibited his work.

Cante Pacos innovated and experimented with all the new materials that inspired his creativity: plastic, resin, polyester, etc. He was commissioned to create monumental sculptures for the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Gare Montparnasse, the modern towers of the La Défense business district, etc. Numerous galleries show his work and exhibit it at major fairs and events (Australia, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Germany, USA, etc.).

In the world of design, it was in 2018 that he reshuffled the deck by producing furniture designed in the 1970s but never built before. We are rediscovering Cante Pacos the designer, and all the success that his furniture had already achieved a few decades earlier under the Cardin banner. His creations are both contemporary and timeless, in tune with the times and rooted in the tradition of the great cabinet-makers. With the added bonus that they are the work of a sculptor and a poet: their shapes intrigue and touch us, mysterious, sensual and attractive, halfway between jewellery and sculpture.

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Le bel été, Galerie La Forest Divonne – Paris, from January 22 to February 28, 2026.

 

Valérie Novello was born in 1971 in Paris. She lives and works in Gentilly.

Franco-Italian artist born in 1971, Valérie Novello has developed a highly sensitive body of work, at the frontier of sculpture, painting and drawing. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris, Novello has patiently built up, in the secrecy of the studio, a rich, diverse and profound body of work revealed to the public since 2019 by her numerous exhibitions in Belgium, Italy, France and Taiwan. A precious and delicate discovery that strives to reveal with poetry the presence of memories and things under layers of paper and pigments.

Mainly graphic, his work unfolds at the limits of drawing and sculpture, associating in the treatment of paper techniques of drawing and bas-reliefs, and pushing the territory of drawing towards the domains of glass, wax and plaster, through works that are often monumental.

 

The Remains
The remains echo a past truth, what was – buried things, abandoned places, landscapes, bodies, ruins – through the opacity of time. They are the memory of things and the memory of beings, in their fragility. There is in the remains the presence of a mystery. What are they the remains of? Of what image are they the sign? If everything cannot be explained, if everything cannot be reached, I try to give shape to a mental image – distant and original – that obsesses me. I seek to approach it, to unveil and reveal it in the present. Of this original image, only the incomplete, fragmented remains are revealed. Each new creation is a quest for what I can only imagine and reconstitute by excavating the material – or materials: organic, geological, genealogical. It’s a work that must be constantly renewed.

Valerie Novello

Born in 1947, Christian Renonciat studied at the Sorbonne and obtained a degree in philosophy.  In 1969, he entered an art workshop in Antibes, where he practiced woodworking for six years.
In 1975, he opened his own workshop in Valbonne where his first sculptures were born.
Back in Paris, Christian Renonciat presented his first exhibition in 1978 at the Alain Blondel gallery.

Renonciat seeks to reach the sensuality of perception to awaken the knowledge of touch.
His works speak to our ears and our hands. The intervention of the artist on the material to arrive at the modelled and the exact folded, of the paper, the plastic or the wool, is spectacular, but Renonciat leaves the spectacle aside, to leave us all to the pleasure of the line, to the softness of the curve, to the tremor of the fold. The sculptor erases any trace of his hand, preferring to open, as he writes, «the prodigious library of sensations in memory». In front of his sculptures one has instantly the sensation of the paper or the envelope at the end of the fingers, with its lightness, and its noise, or that of the cardboard which tears; the softness and the rebound of the foam, the heat of the wool.
Since 1984, Christian Renonciat has followed a second parallel path, monumental creation, for which he combines imagination and technique in very diverse materials (cast steel, bronze, aluminum, gardens, etc.) often with the tone of a dreamlike archeology.
Today, he finds the matter of things in large mural compositions of carved wood, such as tapestries of sheet, plastic, wool, paper or cardboard.

His work is shown in France, Switzerland, Belgium, USA, Japan, China, South Korea… Some of his Installations are in Saumur, Tokyo, Sapporo, Atlanta, San Francisco, Monte-Carlo, Aytré, La Rochelle, Paris, Issy, Reims, London, Seoul, etc.

Born in 1977, Tinka Pittoors is a Belgian artist, living and working in Antwerp.

She creates and elaborates colourful structures epoxy and ceramics, often mixed with everyday objects. She has shown in MUKHA Antwerp, SMAK Gent, MMuseum Leuven, Museum aan Zee Den Haag, BAM Mons, Palais d’Iéna, Mol Kiest Kunst, CBK Zeeland, Sidney Biennial,… Tinka Pittoors’ artworks often link the evident joy and playfulness of colours and objects to a subtle underlying violence. One thinks of the disturbing universe of Alice in Wonderland, for the atmosphere, while Niki de Saint Phalle is an interesting reference for these surprising colourful sculptures, with a naïve touch although conveying a deep sensitivity to the main issues of our time.

 

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Art Brussels 2026, from Thursday 23 April to Sunday 26 April 2026.

Ronan Barrot, born in 1973, is a painter. He entered the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1991, graduating with honors in 1997. In 2001, Galerie Trafic organized his first solo exhibition, Cataractes. In 2006, he exhibited his paintings at the Musée Marc Chagall in Nice. From 2007, he is represented by Galerie Claude Bernard. It devotes numerous group and solo exhibitions to his work, and presents him at numerous events (FIAC, BRAFA, ArtParis) as well as in other galleries. Many of his works are already part of major private collections in France and abroad, and today feature in those of national museums: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Strasbourg, Fondation MAEGHT in Saint Paul de Vence, FRAC Île-de-France-Le Plateau, FRAC Auvergne, etc.

Ronan Barrot acknowledges a number of profound influences: among his masters are Goya and Courbet, from whom he derives his material, his light, his play with reinvented color and his passion for contrasting dark and light hues. At once a portraitist, a landscape painter and a painter of vanities, sometimes nostalgic, always visionary, sometimes an illusionist, he masters all genres, interweaving them with bravado but always with accuracy.

Galerie La Forest Divonne is delighted to present Ronan Barrot for the first time at the BRAFA Art Fair.