Galerie La Forest Divonne
Ofer Lellouche , France
Ofer Lellouche, Atelier 1, Bronze, 40 x 80 x 40, Epreuve 1_7, 2014 Courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne
First solo show at The Galerie La Forest Divonne, we are proud to present Ofer Lellouche, a painter, sculptor, and etcher, Ofer Lellouche lives and works in Tel Aviv and Paris. We will present sculptures and works on paper.
Lellouche’s work has been exhibited at world-renowned museums, including the Gulbenkian Museum of Modern Art in Lisbon, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art the Israel Museum Jerusalem, the CAFA Museum in Beijing, the Hymalayas Museum in Shanghai, and the Albertina Museum Wien. He has been represented by the Jan Krugier Gallery untill its closure in 2012.
Although he began his artistic career in the 1970s by concentrating on video art, Ofer Lellouche soon felt a need to “get back to basics”: painting. For many years, the painted self-portrait was his consuming passion. Lellouche later branched out to landscapes, the still life, and the nude model. Most recently, this versatile artist has focused on sculpture.
Ofer Lellouche has also published theoretical treatises, including “Reflections on Narcissism”, “The Nude Descending a Staircase”, “Numbers: Thoughts on Diane Michener’s Photography”, and “The Wedding of Narcissus and Echo”.
Ofer Lellouche was born in Tunisia, 1947. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Saint Louis college, Paris. In 1966, two months before his final examinations he ran away from home to kibbutz Yehiam in the Western Galilee, Israel. In 1968, during his military service, he suffered severe hepatitis which immobilized him for several months. It was during this illness that he started to paint. He first studied with Yehezkiel Streichman, an abstract lyrical painter, at the Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv. He later returned to Paris to study with the sculptor Cesar, at the same time obtaining a master’s degree in Literature. His thesis concerned the work of Stephane Mallarmé.
Solo show of Ofer Lellouche
From May 22nd to June 28th, 2025
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 25 May 2025 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Meeting – Galerie La Forest Divonne
75006 Paris, France 01 40 29 97 52 www.galerielaforestdivonne.com/fr/accueil
The gallery
Galerie La Forest Divonne has two locations: one in Paris, since 1988, in iconic Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and another one in Brussels since 2016, under the glass-ceiling of a national heritage Art Nouveau Building, and since 2025 with a new location on the prestigious Avenue Louise. With some twenty-five artists aged 30 to 90 years old, the gallery covers all expressions of the visual arts, from installations to drawing. The program spans from figures of the French scene of the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Lucien Hervé in photography or Vincent Bioulès, Patrice Giorda in painting, to mid-career and emerging international artists in all practices, like the Elsa & Johanna duo, American painter Jeff Kowatch, sculptor Jean-Bernard Métais, or flemish artist Tinka Pittoors or recently Krjst studio. Trough both Paris and Brussels, La Forest Divonne organizes a dozen gallery exhibitions and participates in six to ten art fairs each year, including, Expo Chicago, Paris Photo, Art Paris, Art Brussels, BRAFA and the Paris Biennale. The gallery collaborates with a number of museums and institutions across Europe in which its artists are regularly shown or acquired (Centre Pompidou, Karlsruhe and Hamburg Museum, Royal Museums of Belgium, FMAC, CNAP, FNAC, MEP, Chateaux de Chaumont et de Chambord, National Museum of Hungary, Kunsthaus Zurich, Geneva... and many others). Marie Hélène de La Forest Divonne, founder and CEO of the gallery, is on the board of CPGA, the French National Association of Galleries and also a member of the Belgian association of Galleries (BUP). In 2014, the President of Centre Pompidou decorated her with the prestigious National medal « des Arts et des Lettres » for her achievements in Contemporary Art.
Gallery artists
Arthur Aillaud, Ronan Barrot, Vincent Bioulès, Jérome Bryon, Caribaï, Bernadette Chéné, Valérie Delarue, Elsa & Johanna, Catherine François, François Cante-Pacos, Patrice Giorda, Alexandre Hollan, Jeff Kowatch, KRJST Studio, Gerard Kuijpers, Rachel Labastie, Guy de Malherbe, Anna Mark, Jean-Bernard Métais, Tinka Pittoors, Christian Renonciat, Illés Sarkantyu, Valérie Novello, Aain Veinstein, Samuel Yal
