Hippolyte Hentgen
Hippolyte Hentgen is the pseudonym of Gaëlle Hippolyte and Lina Hentgen, two artists who work together in Paris. For their sculptures and installations, often made up of writings on paper, wood, or cloth, Hippolyte Hentgen have a good time multiplying the tracks of their artistic inheritance. The flow of references and objects holds more importance than their origins, which in any case have been long since forgotten at a rest-stop on the highway of mass reproduction. This is where Hippolyte Hentgen takes them in, tickles them with the tip of a brush or with fairy fingers so these forgotten figures can finally stand tall once again, take on fresh new colours, flex their limbs and regain a little of their sense of humour.
Hippolyte Hentgen has had solo exhibitions at Musée de l’abbaye de Sainte-Croix in Les Sables d’Olonne, La V.R.A.C. in Millau, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Artothèque de Pessac, Semiose Galerie in Paris, Zebra 3 in Bordeaux, and Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, among other venues. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as INSA in Lyon, CRAC in Sète, FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou. MAMCO in Genève, and the Portland Museum of Modern …
Hippolyte Hentgen is the pseudonym of Gaëlle Hippolyte and Lina Hentgen, two artists who work together in Paris. For their sculptures and installations, often made up of writings on paper, wood, or cloth, Hippolyte Hentgen have a good time multiplying the tracks of their artistic inheritance. The flow of references and objects holds more importance than their origins, which in any case have been long since forgotten at a rest-stop on the highway of mass reproduction. This is where Hippolyte Hentgen takes them in, tickles them with the tip of a brush or with fairy fingers so these forgotten figures can finally stand tall once again, take on fresh new colours, flex their limbs and regain a little of their sense of humour.
Hippolyte Hentgen has had solo exhibitions at Musée de l’abbaye de Sainte-Croix in Les Sables d’Olonne, La V.R.A.C. in Millau, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Artothèque de Pessac, Semiose Galerie in Paris, Zebra 3 in Bordeaux, and Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, among other venues. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as INSA in Lyon, CRAC in Sète, FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou. MAMCO in Genève, and the Portland Museum of Modern Art.
Courtesy of Semiose Galerie
Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix, Sables d’Ozone, France
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Fonds Municipal de la Ville de Paris, France
Fonds Municipal d’art contemporain de Gennevilliers, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
FRAC Corse, Corse, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Semiose Galerie, Paris, France
