GALERIE SCHOFFEL DE FABRY

The Schoffel de Fabry gallery, a family of antique dealers specialising in primitive art since the 1960s, enjoys an international reputation and has contributed to the development of important collections, both private and institutional, such as the Dapper Foundation, the Louvre Museum, the Quai Branly Museum and, more recently, the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The gallery is expanding its expertise in the arts of Oceania, Africa, North America and Southeast Asia.

It organises and participates in numerous art exhibitions, such as Jackson Pollock and Shamanism at the Pinacothèque de Paris in 2008 and Return from Expedition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in 2012. The gallery organises thematic and cross-disciplinary exhibitions such as: Victor Brauner and Primitive Art, October 2010.

The Schoffel de Fabry gallery will exhibit a collection of primitive artworks at the Grand Palais, specially selected for FAB Paris 2025. Of particular note is a rare figure of a reliquary Mbumba Bwiti Sango/Tsogho from Gabon.

Surrounded by ancient objects from Africa, Oceania and Southeast Asia, visitors to stand S15 will discover a series of prints by French artist and photographer Jean-Michel Fauquet (born in 1950 in Lourdes, France), resulting from processes that involve drawing, painting and sculpture, before giving rise to photographs similar to prints. This is essentially studio work, where the subject, made from poor materials, is a pretext that prompts the viewer to create a narrative based on their own memories and imagination. His way of seeing light and forms is very personal. His printing processes and his use of paper and special media also make him something of an alchemist. With this in mind, the gallery will strive to highlight the mystical and unconscious links that the artist has with archaic forms, mirrored in primitive art.

Judith Schoffel de Fabry has been appointed President of the CNE, the Compagnie Nationale des Experts en Art, in 2021.