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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]THE ARTIST<\/p>\n

Born in 1958 in Brussels into a family of artists, Nicolas Alquin, after studying art restoration at the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions, attended the studios of sculptors Reinhoud d\u2019Haese and \u00c9tienne Martin. He develops his artistic vocabulary through three principal vectors: wood (direct carving); beeswax carved and modeled in the mass (sometimes cast in bronze); and sepia or black ink (for brush washes).<\/p>\n

Reversing the precepts of post-minimal sculpture, he unfolds a practice that intensely revisits art history, drawing equally on marginal references and the grand tradition of sculpture. In a constant dialogue between Judeo-Christian heritage and the influence of so-called \u201cprimitive\u201d arts on contemporary creation, Nicolas Alquin materializes through his works a reflection on the relationships between the visible and the ineffable, the hand and the mind, mastery and chance. Thus, he does not hesitate to appropriate so-called \u201ctraditional\u201d techniques (notably direct wood carving and bronze chasing), infusing them with diverse influences and placing them in renewed perspective.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from a text by Marc Bembekoff<\/p>\n

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS<\/p>\n

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2025 Revealed Woods, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Center for Art and Nature<\/p>\n

2024 Heaven’s Door, Kamil Gallery \/ Birch Gallery, Monaco<\/p>\n

2023 She and the Path, Fontevraud Abbey, France<\/p>\n

2021 Sculptures, Galerie Marie-Ange Boucher, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n

2019 Stories of Sculptins, French Consular Villa, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

2018 Saint-Pierre-la-Cour Collegiate Church, Le Mans2017 House of Music and Dance, Bagneux<\/p>\n

2017 Galerie Devillez, Brussels<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cDe toutes pi\u00e8ces\u201d, Galerie Maeght, Paris<\/p>\n

2016 \u201cNicolas Alquin, Sculpture and Xylotraces\u201d, Galerie Simonici, Luxembourg<\/p>\n

2015 Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Koralewski<\/p>\n

2014 Presences of Life on Aquilon Silcan, Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium<\/p>\n

2013 Wood and Derivatives, Hospice Saint Roch Museum, Issoudun, France<\/p>\n

Arsenal Museum and Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons, France<\/p>\n

Campredon Museum, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France<\/p>\n

2012 Of Wax and Wood, Galerie Le Salon d\u2019Art, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n

2008 Portraits of Stars, Galerie Guigon, Paris<\/p>\n

2007 Constellations, Galleria Del Leone, Venice, Italy<\/p>\n

2006 Celestial Bodies, Lin\u00e9art, Paule de Boeck Fine Arts booth, Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n

2005 Driftwood, Ixelles Museum, Brussels<\/p>\n

Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels<\/p>\n

Alquin\u2019s Studio, Coubertin Foundation Museum, Saint-R\u00e9my-l\u00e8s-Chevreuse, France<\/p>\n

2004 Glimpses, Galleria del Leone, Venice<\/p>\n

2003 Galerie Mich\u00e8le Broutta, Paris<\/p>\n

2002 Close-Up on Alquin, Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation<\/p>\n

2000 Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels<\/p>\n

1999 Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, FIAC, Paris<\/p>\n

Chapel of the Penitents, Clermont-l\u2019H\u00e9rault, and Abbey of Gellone, Saint-Guilhem-le-D\u00e9sert, France<\/p>\n

1998 Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium<\/p>\n

1996 Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels<\/p>\n

Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, FIAC, Paris<\/p>\n

1993 Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels<\/p>\n

1992 Les Passantes, Galerie du Jour\u2013Agnes B, Paris<\/p>\n

1991 Galerie Erval, FIAC, Paris<\/p>\n

Les Stylites, Prieur\u00e9 Saint-Michel, Crouttes, France<\/p>\n

1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Dunkirk, France<\/p>\n

Le Botanique Cultural Center, Brussels<\/p>\n

Galerie Bernard Cats, Brussels<\/p>\n

1988 Galerie Maeght, Paris<\/p>\n

1987 Galerie Maeght, Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n

1986 Des \u00c9clipses, Galerie Maeght, Paris<\/p>\n

Galerie Le Salon d\u2019Art, Brussels<\/p>\n

French Cultural Center, Abidjan, Ivory Coast<\/p>\n

1985 Municipal Theater of Caen, France<\/p>\n

1984 Maisons en t\u00eate, Galerie Erval, Paris<\/p>\n

1982 Sculptures and Sculptins, Galerie Erval, FIAC, Paris<\/p>\n

1981 From Tree to House, Galerie Pierre Vanderborght, Brussels<\/p>\n

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MONUMENTS AND PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS<\/p>\n

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2022 Liturgical furnishings, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church, Sceaux<\/p>\n

2020 Liturgical furnishings, Chapel of the Catholic Institute of Lille<\/p>\n

2018 May Peace Be with You, Notre-Dame-de-La-Treille Cathedral, Lille<\/p>\n

2018 War Memorial, Brunoy, France<\/p>\n

2017 Calvary of the Sailors of Dunkirk, Dunkirk<\/p>\n

2013 Haris, Guardian of the North, Museum of Soissons<\/p>\n

2012 Saint Joseph, Parish of Saint-Joseph, Montrouge<\/p>\n

2010 Altar, ambo, and tabernacle, Chapel of the House of the Servants of the Word, Charenton<\/p>\n

2009 Perseus and Andromeda, Yerres Cultural Center<\/p>\n

2008 Via Orange, sculpture for Orange\u2013France Telecom, Arcueil<\/p>\n

Word of the Abyss, House of the French Bishops\u2019 Conference, Paris<\/p>\n

2007 Solitude, Monument to Resistant Slaves, Bagneux<\/p>\n

2004 Saint Joseph, Kliniek Sint Jozef, Pittem, Belgium<\/p>\n

2002 Cross of Hope, Notre-Dame-de-l\u2019Esp\u00e9rance Church, Paris<\/p>\n

Facing the Zenith, Customs Hotel, Annecy<\/p>\n

Passage of Fire, Beelden aan Zee Museum, Scheveningen, Netherlands<\/p>\n

Altar and Cross, Varennes-Jarcy Church<\/p>\n

2001 Clay Heart, Clermont-l\u2019H\u00e9rault<\/p>\n

1998 Words in Memory of Victims of Terrorism, fountain, H\u00f4tel des Invalides, Paris<\/p>\n

Judith, Place Albert I, Brussels<\/p>\n

Saint-Beno\u00eet Fountain, \u00cele-de-France Water Authority<\/p>\n

1996 Judith, Beelden aan Zee Museum, Netherlands<\/p>\n

1993 The Newborn, Veranneman Foundation, Belgium<\/p>\n

1991 Gaspard, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dunkirk<\/p>\n

1989 Day of Desert, Museum of Sacred Art, Lille<\/p>\n

1987 The Star Composter, Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas Church, Paris<\/p>\n

1982 Sleeper, National Contemporary Art Fund, France<\/p>\n

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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS<\/p>\n

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2014 Grand Prix L\u00e9on-Georges Baudry, Taylor Foundation, Paris<\/p>\n

2007 Charles and Christiane Oulmont Foundation Prize, Paris<\/p>\n

2004 Enku Award, Gifu, Japan<\/p>\n

2002 Pozna\u0144 International Sculpture Biennale Prize, Poland<\/p>\n

2001 Grand Prix Prince Pierre of Monaco<\/p>\n

1997 Sculpture Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation<\/p>\n

1988 Leonardo da Vinci Prize, Abidjan<\/p>\n

1987 Villa M\u00e9dicis Prize (Off-site), Verona, Italy<\/p>\n

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MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS<\/p>\n

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2024 Art and Spirituality in Troyes, France<\/p>\n

2021 Birch Gallery: CoBrA and Friends (continuous exhibition)<\/p>\n

2020 International Fund of Contemporary Art of Le Mans<\/p>\n

Birch Gallery, Art Herning, Denmark<\/p>\n

2019 Sculpt\u2019 en Sologne, Guest of Honor<\/p>\n

2018 Brafa Art Fair, Brussels<\/p>\n

2016 Alquin, Amorim, de Torhout, Taylor Foundation<\/p>\n

2015 Bronzes, Galerie Maeght, Paris<\/p>\n

2014 Flag France Renaissance, Shanghai<\/p>\n

2013 Flag France Renaissance, Ch\u00e2teau de la Celle-Saint-Cloud<\/p>\n

2012 Drawings, Galerie Guigon<\/p>\n

2011 Bodies and Souls, Galerie Koralewski<\/p>\n

2010 Yerres Sculpture Biennale<\/p>\n

2006 Poznan International Sculpture Triennale<\/p>\n

2004 Moi! Self-Portrait of the 20th Century, Luxembourg Museum, Paris<\/p>\n

2001 Movement 134, Tokyo<\/p>\n

1996 Scottsdale Center for the Arts, USA<\/p>\n

1995 Marlborough Gallery, New York<\/p>\n

1987 Carte Blanche to Ten Young Artists, Centre Pompidou<\/p>\n

1984 French Association for Artistic Action, Dakar & Abidjan<\/p>\n

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NICOLAS ALQUIN<\/h4>\n

Born in 1958<\/p>\n

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Coeur trouv\u00e9 – Found Heart<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

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Sculpture 1999 \u2013 Base 2006\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bronze cast with black patina on a carved wooden base<\/p>\n

Signed on the back of the terrace<\/p>\n

No. VIII \/ VIII<\/p>\n

Foundry stamp<\/p>\n

Inscription on the base\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Height : 95 cm<\/p>\n

Width\u00a0: \u00a0\u00a031 cm<\/p>\n

Depth : 31 cm<\/p>\n

Height including base\u00a0: 135 cm<\/p>\n

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Provenance\u00a0: Private Parisian Collection<\/p>\n

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