Our artistic selection
One guiding principle: the artist
Galerie Montmartre is a family-run gallery, reflecting who we are, as it should. That is our only guiding principle. Art is not a diktat here, but a proposal that is neither dogmatic nor doctrinaire, nor even scholarly. Our gallery is a space of confluence, carried by a current, and the only one that matters: that of the artists.
Around this current, we build collections that we want to be analogous to geometric equality: a work on proportions and their harmony, not on numbers. We do not want to be an ogre, no more a Goliath than a Saturn. The art we present must therefore maintain a certain coherence both in spirit and in aesthetic terms.
Thematic explorations
Of course, we have our favorite themes. The relationship with time and its idols or icons was one of our first. It remains a driving force for the gallery’s (permanent) artists, such as Giorgio Tentolini and Léo Caillard, who held a joint exhibition with us combining wire mesh and marble sculptures. Each in their own way, they succeeded in creating texture and depth in ancient models that they wanted to revive.
Master animal sculptor Michel Bassompierre and Caribbean painter Luz Severino explore another theme that is essential to us: the human relationship with Nature and its forms, one through the refined curves of fauna that seem so familiar to us, the other through her floral interlacing painted and then woven onto canvas. They develop a vision of nature, immutable nature, far from being frozen, but constantly changing.
When it comes to forms, Kip Omolade is one of those artists you never forget. His painted faces emerge from the canvas with elegance, touching as much as they surprise.
The art gallery, a living space
We represent all these artists, and they represent us. It is a reflection of Montmartre today, which must live on. The art we present is not that of a postcard; it is not static but must be part of the long term. The gallery avoids simple stimuli; it seeks and searches for lasting interest in the surprise of the aesthetic proposal.
Alex Doppia, Director