GALERIE 8+4

For more than fifteen years, our gallery has distinguished itself in the contemporary art world by the production each year of several original artworks with French and international artists. Throughout our history, we have collaborated with around 40 artists of all generations such as : Clément Bagot, Amélie Barnathan, Pierrette Bloch, Pierre Buraglio , Alan Charlton, Les soeurs Chevalme, Franck David, Philippe Decrauzat, Philippe Favier, Hamish Fulton, Christian Jaccard, Vera Molnar, Hermann Nitsch, Roman Opalka, Giuseppe Penone, Javier Pérez, Bernard Plossu, Anne et Patrick Poirier, Lionel Sabatté, Massinissa Selmani, Claire Trotignon, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, etc.

Each production is the fruit of an encounter with the artist. Each time, we seek to present artworks that take a particular place in the artist’s body of work, responding to a desire to present a specific and original artwork that opens the way to the exploration of new territories or mediums.

Our showroom in the 2th arrondissement of Paris is an opportunity to present our choices and favourites and also to display singular, artworks from the artists’ studios. It is also an opportunity to reveal ensembles, of well known or young artists, from Paris, Brussels, Madrid, London or Berlin…

Lionel Sabatté has always been fascinated by the obviousness of Paleolithic cave art and has committed himself to the ancient technique of tapestry, seeking to deconstruct it. Refusing to consider this technique as the simple mechanical reproduction of a pattern created by crossing wool and paper threads, Lionel Sabatté enhances the fabric with figures painted in acrylic, lines drawn with simple dried oil cakes collected on beaches, and fishing net threads forming knots that resemble fantastical beasts. The initial pattern is absorbed, covered by these multiple layers from which animal figures emerge, intertwining and springing forth, evoking the drawings found on the walls of Paleolithic caves.

Born in Toulouse in 1975. Lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles. A graduate of theEcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2003, Lionel Sabatté has received several artistic awards such as the Luxembourg Art Prize in 2020, the Del Luca Foundation Painting Prize in 2019, the Prix des Amis de la Maison Rouge, the Prix Drawing Now in 2017 and the Yishu 8 Prize in Beijing in 2011. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in France (MAMC+ Saint-Étienne métropole in 2021, Château de Chambord in 2023) and abroad, and is included in several institutional collections. In 2025, Lionel Sabatté became one of four artists