galerie Sator
Victor Garel
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"Fatrasie"
Quel salaud, il veut lui voler son chapeau, 2026 Huile sur toile 200 x 230 cm © Gregory Copitet Courtesy Victor Garel et galerie Sator
Victor Garel is largely self-taught in painting. After a few years of fruitful exploration, he enrolled in college to study art history. He had always drawn. He moved to Scotland to further his practice by pursuing a master’s degree at the Glasgow School of Art.
A frequent visitor to museums and libraries, he recounts his encounter with contemporary art through his discovery of Louise Bourgeois’s work. Barely 15 years old, he was struck by the domestic world—both direct and violent—that emanates from her sculptures, particularly the maternal figure embodied by the monumental spiders. Today, his images emerge on his canvases very intuitively, barely filtered through a few sketches in a notebook. The characters’ faces resemble those of icons, identical today to what they were centuries ago.
Solo show of Victor Garel
From May 27 to July 18, 2026
The gallery
Founded in 2011 in the Marais in Paris, Galerie Sator promotes the work of emerging and developing international artists.
The gallery is characterized by its strong emphasis on visual art that references other forms of art and fields of thought: politics, history, history of art, literature, philosophy and science.
The gallery’s approach is completed by an investigation of the place of the image in contemporary societies and of the production of plastic forms.
Gallery artists
Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Corentin Canesson, Jean Marc Cerino, Sylvain Ciavaldini, Raphaël Denis, Hugo Deverchère, Yevgeniy Fiks, Christian Gonzenbach, Yan Heng, Evangelia Kranioti, Hayoun Kwon, Gabriel Leger, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Eric Manigaud, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Truc-Anh, Pu Yinkwei
