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La Reorneadora,
2006
Philippe Hiquily
Sculpture : iron, Corten steel, Patina
240 x 110 x 110 cm 94.5 x 43.3 x 43.3 inch
€120,000
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240 x 110 x 110 cm 94.5 x 43.3 x 43.3 inch Height x Width x Depth
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The sculpture can be displayed outdoors
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Artwork location: France
In 2006, the year La Reoneadora was created, Hiquily became a resident of Tahiti. The sculpture captures Hiquily’s passion for indigenous and ethnographic forms which led him to relocate there. This was also just a year after the publication of Pierre Cabanne’s survey of Hiquily’s bronzes and mobiles, which was marked by two exhibitions devoted to these works at the Patrice Trigano gallery as well as the Yves Gastou in Paris. The present work is representative of Hiquily’s signature style comprising of biomorphic, monumental mobiles in weathering steel, as well as aluminium and brass, a practice he first started in the 1960’s. His work is characterised by a whimsical, surreal quality – though he refused to accept the categorisation of Surrealism.
La Reoneadora conveys Hiquily’s playful, dreamlike approach, juxtaposing sensual contours with the sharpness of steel which creates a poetic sense of antithesis. The title itself is perhaps a piece of word play on the idea of a storm of thoughts - a portmanteau between the latin for ‘think’ and ‘tornado’. The ‘thoughts’ are suspended in loose formation, dangling in an effortless fashion around the base. Yet, we can only fashion guesses – the title resists any interpretation. Despite such spontaneity, Hiquily nonetheless retains formal balance in this work. His use of weathering Corten steel also reflects his interest in recycled and unconventional materials, placing him comfortably in the tradition of New Realism, alongside Tinguely and Arman. Hiquily was at the epicentre of the Parisian 1960’s post-war avant-garde scene which saw the birth of the Nouvelle Vague and New Realism – it was a time of great transformation and a crisis of confidence for the École de Paris, as previous modes of Parisian fine art practice were abandoned in favour of the breaking down boundaries between art and life, expressed through collage, assemblage and a fundamentally more anti-establishment and tongue-and-cheek art. Hiquily’s role in these new movements is reflected through his appearance in one of Jean Luc-Godard’s short sketches from his series Paris vu par, where Hiquily plays himself. The film captures the spontaneous and erotic spirit of the Parisian Nouvelle Vague on the 1960s, and along with this, the essence of Hiquily’s work.
Philippe Hiquily was born in Paris on the 27th March 1925. He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1947 to 1951, during which time he attended the workshops of Jean Tinguely and Germaine Richier, for whom he made sculpture bases. The two artists evidently left a considerable impact on Hiquily’s work. From that moment on, he worked solely with metals (iron, aluminium, copper, etc). He had his first solo show at the Galerie Palmes, in Paris, in 1954. Another solo show followed in 1958 at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris. In 1959, he travelled to New York to present his sculptures at the gallery ‘The Contemporaries’, his first solo show in America. It was this exhibition which secured Hiquily’s trajectory as a significant French sculptor, as the Guggenheim purchased one of his works during the opening, propelling him into the New York artistic milieu, introducing him to Lichtenstein, Castelli, Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns to name but a few. Upon his return to Paris the same year he received the first prize at the Paris biennale, and shortly after in 1963 Roland Penrose organised an exhibition for him at the ICA in London.
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Private collection, France
LITERATURE
This work is included in Jean-François Roudillon and Tara Hiquily, Catalogue Raisonné des œuvres de 1948-2011 de Philippe Hiquily, Editions Loft, 2012, Vol. 1, p. 409
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La Reoneadora conveys Hiquily’s playful, dreamlike approach, juxtaposing sensual contours with the sharpness of steel which creates a poetic sense of antithesis. The title itself is perhaps a piece of word play on the idea of a storm of thoughts - a portmanteau between the latin for ‘think’ and ‘tornado’. The ‘thoughts’ are suspended in loose formation, dangling in an effortless fashion around the base. Yet, we can only fashion guesses – the title resists any interpretation. Despite such spontaneity, Hiquily nonetheless retains formal balance in this work. His use of weathering Corten steel also reflects his interest in recycled and unconventional materials, placing him comfortably in the tradition of New Realism, alongside Tinguely and Arman. Hiquily was at the epicentre of the Parisian 1960’s post-war avant-garde scene which saw the birth of the Nouvelle Vague and New Realism – it was a time of great transformation and a crisis of confidence for the École de Paris, as previous modes of Parisian fine art practice were abandoned in favour of the breaking down boundaries between art and life, expressed through collage, assemblage and a fundamentally more anti-establishment and tongue-and-cheek art. Hiquily’s role in these new movements is reflected through his appearance in one of Jean Luc-Godard’s short sketches from his series Paris vu par, where Hiquily plays himself. The film captures the spontaneous and erotic spirit of the Parisian Nouvelle Vague on the 1960s, and along with this, the essence of Hiquily’s work.
Philippe Hiquily was born in Paris on the 27th March 1925. He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1947 to 1951, during which time he attended the workshops of Jean Tinguely and Germaine Richier, for whom he made sculpture bases. The two artists evidently left a considerable impact on Hiquily’s work. From that moment on, he worked solely with metals (iron, aluminium, copper, etc). He had his first solo show at the Galerie Palmes, in Paris, in 1954. Another solo show followed in 1958 at the Galerie du Dragon in Paris. In 1959, he travelled to New York to present his sculptures at the gallery ‘The Contemporaries’, his first solo show in America. It was this exhibition which secured Hiquily’s trajectory as a significant French sculptor, as the Guggenheim purchased one of his works during the opening, propelling him into the New York artistic milieu, introducing him to Lichtenstein, Castelli, Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns to name but a few. Upon his return to Paris the same year he received the first prize at the Paris biennale, and shortly after in 1963 Roland Penrose organised an exhibition for him at the ICA in London.
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PROVENANCE
Private collection, France
LITERATURE
This work is included in Jean-François Roudillon and Tara Hiquily, Catalogue Raisonné des œuvres de 1948-2011 de Philippe Hiquily, Editions Loft, 2012, Vol. 1, p. 409
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Presentation
French sculptor, born in 1925 in Paris. He joined the school of fine arts in Paris from 1948 to 1953 and received the prize for criticism in Paris' Biennale in 1959. He works with the sculptors Jean Tinguely and Germaine Richier, with whom he made pedestal culptures. He exhibited for the first time in 1955 at the Palms Gallery in Paris, then Contemporaries Gallery in New York in 1959, where he met the great names of American art (Leo Castelli, Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Jasper Jones, Isamu Noguchi ...). The success came quickly and the prestigious museums in New York (MOMA and the Guggenheim) buy some of his works.
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Starting from 1960, he created furniture. The creation of bronze began around 1980. They were exposed for the first time in 1986 at the Galerie Patrice Trigano in Paris.
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