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Emile Gilioli
"The great contribution of the abstract art, it is to render comprehensible that poverty can be it also a kind of richness."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Emile Gilioli s’éteint à Paris le 19 janvier 1977, il avait à peine 65 ans. Il repose dans le petit cimetière de Pâquier (Saint Martin de la Cluze) au pied de la chapelle qui lui a inspiré plusieurs sculptures ; l’artiste s’était installé dans ce village de l’Isère pendant la guerre. Il y passait plusieurs mois de l’année pour y « communier avec la nature ». Sa sculpture « Le Couple » veille sa tombe. En hommage à sa mémoire, nous y déposons avec respect une fleur blanche.
"Le dessin c’est une irradiation vivante qui éclate dans tous les sens, ressemblant sans doute au soleil." - Emile Gilioli
"Pour moi, une sculpture est une sculpture lorsqu’elle est détachée du sculpteur, lorsqu’elle a pris sa marche en avant, comme pour guérir, par la paix et la joie qu’elle apporte." - Emile Gilioli
"La forme n’est valable que par le battement du coeur qui l’a créée." - Emile Gilioli
"Et maintenant le grand oiseau blanc de Gilioli a planté ses serres ici. Avec son aile d’espoir, son aile amputée de combat, et entre elles, le soleil levant." - André Malraux
"En définitive, mon plus grand désir, ce serait d’arriver un jour à faire une sculpture en plein ciel, qui respire avec lui l’unité." - Emile Gilioli
"Quand je regarde le ciel, il est pour moi une sculpture mystérieuse éternelle." - Emile Gilioli
Notes of biography
Son of a shoe-maker workman, Emile Gilioli was born in 1911 in Paris (where he died in 1977).
Like Henri Laurens, he was born at the edge of the channel St Martin. When he was 3 years old, the family left Paris for Mantoue (Italy). There, Emile was employed to forge. After the first world war, the Gilioli’s settled down in Nice. He followed courses to the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and in the same time he was still forging. At 17 years old, he worked with a craftsman sculptor. Two years later - he was 19 years old - he passed the Paris-Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts entrance examination and he joined Jean Boucher’s sculpture atelier.
The chance of his mobilization in Grenoble in 1939, his meeting with the Museum curator contributed to know the cubists and particularly the painter Pierre Closon, one of the rare French artists who personally shared the abstract adventure-beginnings. Gilioli came back to Paris in 1945; he bound to Poliakoff and Deyrolle and took his place in the young abstract school of Paris. He seriously participated in all the exposures of the young sculpture, in France and abroad.
His first personal exposure took place in Grenoble, in 1945. Very early, he got public order (in Isere). One must notice that Gilioli’s work is a remarkable unity: in the form, in the matter, as in the way. The form always turning around the ideality of a egg or a shingle polished. The matter because of the workman he always was. The way, polished, smoothed, to the mirror, that of the craftsman in “the good manners” which he would always be. Gilioli said: “The most beautiful sculpture, it is the sky”. Gilioli or the search of the ideal.
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We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Gilioli », I. Jianou et H. Lasalle, Arted Ed. d’Art, Paris, 1971 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Gilioli, les grands sculpteurs », Jianou et Lassalle, Arted-Editions, 1971
- « Gilioli », M. Ragon, Cat., Galerie Veranneman, Bruxelles, 1971
- « Le monument de la résistance au plateau des Glières », cat., 1976
- « Gilioli : Sculptures », Cat., Centre G. Pompidou, MNAM, Paris 1979
- « E. G. - Esculturas », G. Diehl, cat. d'expo., Ed. Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1981
- « G. : Tekeningen/Dessins », collectif, cat. , Ed. Stichting Veranneman, Belgique, 1987
- « Gilioli », collectif, cat. d'expo., Ed. Galerie Sapone, 1987
- « Emile Gilioli », B. Lorquin et P. Cabanne, Cat., Galerie Dina Vierny, 1988
- « Emile Gilioli 1911-1977 », P.-L. Rinuy, cat., Ed. Fondation de Coubertin, 1998
- « Emile Gilioli, sculpteur », T. Dufrêne et M. Pautasso, cat., Ed. Musée Dauphinois, 2007
To read from the artist :
- « La sculpture, notes et propos », Collection « Le Bien », Robert Morel Ed, 1968
- « Gilioli par lui-même », cat. d'expo., Ed. Galerie Sonia Zanetacci, 1988
Website :
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+ Stamp
Stamp by Emile Gilioli
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Catalogue dedicated by the artist, 1968
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Emile Gilioli
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Emile Gilioli s’éteint à Paris le 19 janvier 1977, il avait à peine 65 ans. Il repose dans le petit cimetière de Pâquier (Saint Martin de la Cluze) au pied de la chapelle qui lui a inspiré plusieurs sculptures ; l’artiste s’était installé dans ce village de l’Isère pendant la guerre. Il y passait plusieurs mois de l’année pour y « communier avec la nature ». Sa sculpture « Le Couple » veille sa tombe. En hommage à sa mémoire, nous y déposons avec respect une fleur blanche.
"Le dessin c’est une irradiation vivante qui éclate dans tous les sens, ressemblant sans doute au soleil." - Emile Gilioli
"Pour moi, une sculpture est une sculpture lorsqu’elle est détachée du sculpteur, lorsqu’elle a pris sa marche en avant, comme pour guérir, par la paix et la joie qu’elle apporte." - Emile Gilioli
"La forme n’est valable que par le battement du coeur qui l’a créée." - Emile Gilioli
"Et maintenant le grand oiseau blanc de Gilioli a planté ses serres ici. Avec son aile d’espoir, son aile amputée de combat, et entre elles, le soleil levant." - André Malraux
"En définitive, mon plus grand désir, ce serait d’arriver un jour à faire une sculpture en plein ciel, qui respire avec lui l’unité." - Emile Gilioli
"Quand je regarde le ciel, il est pour moi une sculpture mystérieuse éternelle." - Emile Gilioli
Art movements
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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