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...

In fact, the spontaneity and expressivity present in Mubin's work place him in the circle of Informal Art, which notably brings together the non-figurative artists of the Second School of Paris. The freedom of gesture and the expressive use of matter and color make this painting, a work characteristic of the style that Mubin deploys in the fifties and sixties. The large strokes applied with energy and elegance give rhythm to the composition. The movement thus created gives an impression of depth...

Jean Gaston Mantel studied painting at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. In 1936, he was awarded the prize of the National Society of Fine Arts, which allowed him to spend a year in Morocco. He settled in Rabat in a workshop made available to laureates in the Kasbah des Oudayas and worked in Meknes alongside Mattéo Brondy (1866-1944). Returning to his hometown in 1937, he presented his work and applied for a position as a drawing teacher in Morocco, which he obtained in Rabat at the Orange Tree...