Born in Paris into a family of Italian shoemakers, Emile Gilioli was soon fascinated by drawing and working with materials. He receives an extremely complete training: first as a craftsman, with an Italian blacksmith and in the workshop of a sculptor specializing in the ornament of facades and gardens in Nice, where his family settled after the First World War; then at the Arts Décoratifs de Nice and at the Beaux-Arts de Paris to follow the courses of a sculpture workshop.
Settled in Grenoble in 1940, he met the artist Pierre-André Farcy (known as Andry-Farcy), then curator of the Grenoble Museum of Fine Arts. He deepens with him his knowledge of contemporary art and in particular abstract painting and cubism. Inspired both by Greek statuary and ancient Egypt, and by cubism, his style earned him a number of public commissions, destined, among others, for some of the high places of the Resistance in the Grenoble region.
In 1949, he was appointed vice-president of the Espace group led by Bloc, Léger and Le Corbusier. Having joined the "foals" of the gallery Denise René - who brings his group of abstract painters to the painting of tapestry cartoons, woven for the most part by the Tabard workshop -, Gilioli meets Raymond Picaud, lissier in Aubusson, and tries his hand at the art of tapestry.
Flagship artist of the abstract sculpture, Gilioli remains faithful to her principles of sobriety, in the form and in the color with wool: firm line and without ornament, play of oppositions between white and black masses.
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LOT n°54 Emile GILIOLI Emile GILIOLI (1911-1977) - Babet ( 1966 ) Sculpture à patine brune nuancée signée et numérotée - Susse Fondeur - Hauteur : 34 cm Fiche détaillée