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A Landmark Exhibition of Philippe Hiquily at Artcurial

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On the occasion of the centenary of Philippe Hiquily’s birth (1925–2013), Artcurial pays tribute to the master of contemporary sculpture with a landmark exhibition, presented from September 10 to 30, 2025, in conjunction with Parcours des Mondes.

Organized in partnership with the Comité Hiquily, the exhibition brings together more than fifty works from private collections and unfolds around five major themes: Hiquily and Oceanic Arts, Movement and Balance, The Female Body, Jewelry, and Furniture.

The first section, Hiquily and Oceanic Arts, places his sculptures, mobiles, monumental works, furniture pieces, jewelry, paintings, and ink drawings in dialogue with Sepik and Kanak artifacts, which were particularly meaningful to the artist. This encounter highlights the deep connection he maintained with tribal arts and their mythological imagination.

Movement and Balance focuses on Hiquily’s favored medium—metal—and its expressive potential. Through his weathervanes, fountains, and mechanisms, whether simple or complex, the sculptor explores a quest for formal freedom, echoing the legacy of great masters of iron such as Julio González and Alexander Calder.

In The Female Body, the exhibition examines one of Hiquily’s most enduring themes: the representation of women. Mother goddesses and stylized silhouettes, often animated by elemental gestures, embody a vision that is at once archaic and futuristic.

This exhibition not only celebrates the centenary of a major artist but also sheds light on a unique sculptural language—poetic, free, and profoundly engaged with matter, the body, and movement.

Cultural Exhibition and Private Sale
From Wednesday, September 10 to Tuesday, September 30, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Closed on Sundays, September 14 and 28)

Artcurial
7, Rond-point des Champs-Élysées Marcel-Dassault
75008 Paris

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Philippe Hiquily

Born in Montmartre in 1925, Philippe Hiquily is a very singular artist, sculptor, but also creator of furniture, jewellery, etchings and experimental kinetic and electronic works. The main axis of his work is to play with shapes and balance but also the “coupling” of sculptures and objects. May they be in iron, brass or steel there are always principles behind his sculptures, art must be funny, playful and esthetical. Movements, curves and materials are as many ways to give life to metal that is metamorphosed in an erotic object. From New York to Paris, museums of tribal art to the salon of French aristocracy, this lover of women, protégé of Germaine Richier, friend of Arman, César, Jodorowsky or Alain Jouffroy, this very convivial and great cigar lover, Officer of the National Order of Arts and Letters, has always known, throughout his life, how to completely overwhelm our view of sculpture.
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