Isabelle Carabantes: Instituting the Living, Reinventing Contemporary Animal Sculpture.

Igor Mitoraj is a world‑renowned Franco‑Polish artist. Born in 1944, he died in 2014 in Paris. A resolutely postmodern artist, he seeks in ancient statuary a balance of forms that transcends the centuries. A student of the prestigious Tadeusz Kantor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he inherited from his master—an influential art theorist—his taste for ancient myths. Mitoraj created numerous monumental sculptures exhibited in London, in Agrigento in Sicily, and in Paris

Michel Cadoret de l'Epineguen was an important representative of French painting in the 50s and 60s, in his time he was distinguished by art critics and was a friend of Alexander Calder. He spent much of his life in Mexico and the United States, so much so that he was called the most American of French painters by the art critic Pierre Courthion. Born in Paris in 1912, he studied at the Beaux-Arts from 1928 to 1932. Mobilized in 1939 and taken prisoner, he escaped in 1940 bef

TAN Jian-Chung is a Taiwanese artist, graduate of national art schools in Taiwan and France, former student of the Chinese painting masters LI CHI-MAO and SU FENG NAN. He combines in his work, with Indian ink or watercolor, the traditional expression of Chinese painting with contributions of Western abstraction to propose works of meditation. Unlike Western painting, Chinese painting is not a reproduction, but rather the expression of a way of thinking, emphasizing the harmon

César Baldaccini, known as "César" is a French sculptor born in Marseille in 1921 and died in Paris in 1998. He is classified in the movement of the "new realism" resulting in 1960 from a declaration of a group of artists among whom Tinguely, Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimo Rottela, César and which was defined by the historian of art Pierre Restany. His sculptural work is marked by his numerous achievements in metal such as "the fish", "the bat" preserved in the National Mu

Optical Art is experiencing a real renaissance in the contemporary scene and the undeniable focus of this movement is Victor Vasarely. But there were other notable artists such as Romano Zanotti (1934-2019). Born from futurism and abstract art, Optical Art takes shape in the years 1955 following the exhibition "Movement" at the Denise René Gallery in Paris where Zanotti was exhibited for more than 15 years alongside Vasarely, Soto and Agam. Kinetic Art focused on the use of