Statut: Represented

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

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As part of the Paris Gallery Week-end, Autres Rivages, meeting with the artist, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, Sunday 31st May, 2026 (4pm-6pm)

Autres Rivages, solo exhibition, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Paris, April 16th – June 6th, 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.

In 2024, the Grand Manège in Vendôme held a major monographic exhibition dedicated to him, bringing together over a hundred paintings and around thirty works on paper. At the end of last year, the prestigious publishing house Skira devoted an important monograph to him, retracing his entire career, while Éditions L’Atelier Contemporain are currently working on the publication of his studio “notes,” scheduled for release this year.

 

 

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

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Solo Show Brussels : La caresse d’être – dans la veine du bois, from 07/05/2026 to 27/06/26.

 

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.

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Group Show : “Syncope – Sabotage” – Cortewalle Castle from the 12th of June to the 19th of July 2026 in Beveren (near Antwerp).

 

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.