Gallery Presentation

From its earliest years, Galerie Henri Chartier has mixed works and artists from different generations and movements, presenting historic artists such as Henri Michaux, Pol Bury, Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Raine and Bram Van Velde, as well as a younger generation, including Guillaume Lebelle, Thibault Hazelzet, Stéphane Guénier, Guillaume Treppoz, Sylvie Pic, Philippe Jusforgues and Caroline Demangel.
Installed since May 2017, at 3 rue Auguste Comte, a few steps from Place Bellecour, the gallery produces solo exhibitions by Benjamin Bruneau, Lionel Sabatté, Floris Dutoit, Sako Yachiyo, Henri Comby, Jorg Gessner, Marc Moret, Jean-Michel Comte, Dominique D'Acher, Blaise Adilon, Robert Combas, Philippe Hortala... The gallery has also invited a number of curators, including Marc Chauveau, Marion Bataillard, Thierry Raspail, Myriam Bucquoit and Bernard Crespin. Increasingly, the gallery focuses on reviving the work of estate artists from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Several publications and off-site events are organized throughout the year.

At this year's Drawing Now, Galerie Henri Chartier will devote its stand to a solo show of Philippe Hortala's works on paper.
Several periods will be presented, including the Nudes, often very muscular figures with improbable morphologies, created in pastel in the early 80s and 90s. This series was notably exhibited at the “Punk Years” exhibition at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne in 2000, a one-man show curated by Benoît Decron.
The Pâtisseries series, undoubtedly one of the most emblematic of his work, will also be featured, with several works on paper in grease pencil, most of which have never been exhibited. This series began in 1986, during two residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and a stay in New York, with a grant from the Hohenberg Foundation. Philippe Hortala continued his Pâtisseries series until his death in 1998.
From 1993 onwards, PH painted his first works of Potagers and Fraisiers, as well as a number of watercolors and inks.
We'll also be presenting the Cuisinière series created in 1998, inspired by metal stoves and foodstuffs made in the early 90s. These works were exhibited at Galerie Piltzer on Avenue Matignon that same year, in partnership with La Cornue.