Patrick Rubinstein was born in Paris in 1960. His childhood would leave a lasting mark on him and later shape his artistic language.

Paris was then living to the beat of British rock, cinema and American pop culture.

He grew up in a family that nurtured his sensitivity to art. From his mother he inherited a passion for cinema; from his father, an inventive mind. It was his father who first introduced him to the techniques of kinetic art. This early initiation, together with the culture of his youth, would prove decisive for his future work.

The artist draws his themes from both past and present, crafting each piece with a goldsmith’s precision. The result is striking: a body of work that is resolutely futuristic and avant-garde.

He sold his first works at the age of 18. Never one to stop innovating, he spent many years refining his technique and his visual language, and today his work enjoys international acclaim.

Between the names Dufilho and Bugatti lies an almost tangible bond, woven over time by the passion of several men.

It began with Jacques, Antoine’s great-uncle, who had the good fortune to collect Bugattis. This immense passion was handed down to his nephew and then, as naturally as a genetic inheritance, the torch passed to Antoine.

It is by knowing one’s roots that one grows. Antoine Dufilho knows his well: they run deep into both art and medicine, and his work bears witness to it.

As a child, Antoine Dufilho was introduced to the visual arts by his great-uncle, an actor, painter and sculptor. Later, his medical studies allowed him to discover – and dissect – the complexity of human biomechanics.

Studies in architecture then led him towards a new approach to sculpture, focused in particular on the framework: once laid bare, the skeleton reveals a rhythm of solids and voids that lends lightness and dynamism to the overall form.

Self-taught, Antoine Dufilho experimented with techniques such as moulding and welding, gradually building the aesthetic of his art around this defining DNA. He has devoted himself to it entirely since 2012.

Cédric Bouteiller was born in Rognac, France, in 1970. He lives and works in the South of France.

He studied fine art and philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence before travelling to New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai.

Since 2009, when he exhibited at Galerie DX in Bordeaux, he has been drawn to the Street Art movement. From Street Art he borrows its symbols, graffiti, stencils and posters. His works are built from images printed on brushed aluminium, heightened with collage, drawing and tags, all sealed beneath a translucent resin. His practice blends a range of techniques – a fusion of modern photography, contemporary painting, graffiti, digital retouching and collage.

Antoni Tàpies and Pierre Alechinsky are central to Cédric Bouteiller’s influences. Later, in Arles, he developed a passion for Picasso and discovered the literary influence of Cocteau.

His travels allow him to bring together images and memories, transfigured in his works. The result reveals a visionary side: a skilful blend of urban views from the cities he has explored.

Cédric Bouteiller is also an alchemist – a mystical alchemy to transcend his condition, a mystical alchemy to raise his consciousness. He experiments with the oxidation of matter, the curing of a plasticiser, the evaporation of paint.

Born in Marseille, Françoise Nielly spent her childhood in the South of France before settling in Paris.

After an early career as an illustrator and photographer in advertising, she turned to painting to reinvent the art of portraiture.

She renders the human face with forceful blows, her palette knife slashing across the features. The bursts of life that leap from her paintings are born of a hand-to-hand struggle with the canvas.

Colour is hurled like a projectile. Her energy gives every stroke the intensity of a sound vibration.

Each daub of paint is a musical note, dissonant and loud like life itself. Yet within the space of the painting they come together in a single timbre that gives every face its soul.

Renowned for her extraordinary dexterity with the palette knife and oil paint, Françoise Nielly confronts the viewer with her portraits, each of which – from a different angle, yet always anew – lays bare the raw face of life.

A contemporary sculptor, Stéphane Cipre turns language into matter. Born in Paris in 1968 into a family from Nice, he grew up on the Côte d’Azur – a land of light and contrast that has shaped his artistic vision ever since.

Trained from an early age in the family business, where he learned precision of hand and the demands of fabrication, Cipre developed a direct relationship with volume, constraint and finish. This solid craft heritage, enriched by studies in art and art history, forms the foundation of a practice in which technical mastery serves a bold and instantly recognisable visual language.

In the late 1990s, his work evolved towards a distinctive sculptural vocabulary in which words no longer merely illustrate: they become form. Compressed, strapped or sequenced letters give rise to powerful sculptures, often in cast aluminium – a material that combines luminosity and precision. Through these works, Cipre questions value, desire and the circulation of meaning in an age shaped by commerce and globalisation, a reflection he sums up as ‘art as merchandise’.

His work is shown internationally in galleries, foundations and at major art fairs, including Art Miami, Art New York, Art Paris and Art Zurich. In Europe, his pieces have been widely exhibited in leading cultural cities and key art-market destinations such as Paris, Nice, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Aix-en-Provence, Monaco, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Mougins and Calvi, as well as Geneva, Zurich, Brussels, Knokke, London, Venice, Forte dei Marmi, Barcelona and Athens. They also feature in renowned Alpine resorts, including Courchevel, Megève, Val d’Isère, Verbier, Gstaad and Crans-Montana.

Beyond Europe, his international reach extends to Miami, Aspen, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Porto Montenegro (Tivat) and Mumbai. His work has been shown in major private foundations, including the Fundació Fran Daurel in Barcelona and the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens – testament to a career marked by both institutional recognition and a strong following among international collectors.

Instantly identifiable, Cipre’s work combines visual impact with conceptual depth, while retaining a sensitive, narrative dimension. His figurative pieces and public works, such as Un Dimanche à Nice, installed in Nice, reflect his attachment to memory, to place and to fundamental human emotions.

Today, Stéphane Cipre continues to pursue a rigorous and coherent body of work, offering contemporary sculpture that is at once legible, embodied and timeless – conceived to resonate across eras, cultures and ways of seeing.

Erik Salin began his career in the world of custom painting.

Already widely noticed, and regarded as one of France’s leading names in the field for his creativity and technique, he turned naturally to fine art.

Influenced by Pop Art, his creations invite us to love, share and make sense of the world. His works are resolutely modern, innovative and contemporary, each carrying a message that punctuates our thoughts.
They are timeless.

He has made his mark on today’s art scene: his works are represented in numerous galleries and he takes part in exhibitions internationally.

Each creation is unique, numbered and signed.

A native of Marseille, Edmond Garnier forged his path outside the academic mould.

Early on, he developed an independent approach grounded in experimentation and a direct relationship with materials.

He began in the graphic arts, exploring hybrid techniques combining spray paint, airbrush and painting.

His first exhibition proved a defining moment: every work on show was sold.

Between the ages of 20 and 33, he asserted his visual language through monumental murals, before extending his practice into space.

He then turned to interior architecture, designing more than 200 venues – bars, restaurants, casinos – where he deepened his command of volume, light and material.

The first lockdown marked a turning point.

He returned to the studio, alone, free of constraints.

The gesture became direct once more.

Matter reclaimed its place.

Today, Edmond Garnier is developing a body of work built around matter as structure.

Built up in layers, his pieces incorporate pigments, relief and hand-worked interventions, reaching an almost tangible density.

The surface gives way to presence.

Nicolas Herbé is a French painter, born in Toulon in 1989, who lives and works in Aix-en-Provence.
He has been developing his painting practice since 2018 and has devoted himself to it full-time since 2021. His work explores gesture, matter and movement through a physical, instinctive abstraction, fuelled as much by urban energy as by memory, rhythm and the traces left by passing through.

Working mainly in oil, acrylic and ink, Nicolas Herbé builds his pieces through layering, tension and flow. His compositions set calligraphic lines, drips, masses of colour and suspended movements in dialogue. For him, paint becomes matter in motion, poised between control and accident.

His first career as a professional chef – a trade he practised for more than twelve years – continues to shape his relationship with materials and tools in profound ways. Certain techniques from that world, notably the piping bag, have gradually been repurposed and woven into his painting process. Today they allow him to apply paint directly onto the canvas and to develop a raised, sculptural mark-making that has become a hallmark of his recent work in oil.

His world is steeped in 1980s and 1990s hip-hop culture, the energy of big cities and a deep connection to place. From Provence to New York, architecture, journeys, networks and flows all become starting points for approaching painting as a sensory cartography.

Through series such as Ligne 36 and his recent explorations of oil and matter, Nicolas Herbé has developed a distinctive abstract language in which gesture retains its spontaneity while fitting into a precise construction of space.

His work is shown in galleries, exhibitions and off-site projects across France. Alongside this, he creates performances and live paintings that place gesture at the heart of the experience of the work.

After several years spent structuring and deepening his visual language in France, he is now embarking on a new, international chapter, notably through a production and immersion project in New York. This new phase aims to test his practice against a new urban scale, create a fresh body of paintings and build lasting exchanges with artists, curators, galleries and collectors.

An artist for nearly 30 years, Tamaz Avaliani has developed a highly personal technique of painting in ballpoint pen that makes his style instantly recognisable. This remarkable technique unfolds in colour in his major series, ‘Dialogue with an artist’.

An experimental series conceived both as a reflection on the art of timeless geniuses (Matisse, Cézanne, Walt Disney...) and as a way for Tamaz Avaliani to grow as an artist by exploring the creativity and techniques of his peers.

A refugee from Ukraine, where he lived and worked from 2009 until the outbreak of war in 2022, Tamaz Avaliani now lives in Paris.