Sophie Verger French, b. 1953
Waterproof for garden
Made in the foundry of Belgium
36 1/4 x 29 1/8 x 18 7/8 in
Exhibition in Tool Museum at WIT DIT JOLI VILLAGE
New monumental creation of 2023
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Fragility and brute force united in the same contemplation.
This very "drowed" sculpture is magnified by a slate gray patina.
The original bronze clay was presented for the first time in the remarkable garden of the Tool Museum at WIT DIT JOLI VILLAGE.
The first bronze edition is now exhibited in the park of Château De Luynes, in the company of the BIG ACROBATS. It is an animal sculpture all in a circle punctuated by the play of horns, horns that poachers will not come and cut! This playful and tender statue has a strong presence and invites optimism. However, rhinos are on the verge of extinction due to the reduction of their territory and increased demand for aphrodisiacs. Viagra could have saved these living vestiges of prehistory, but Chinese traditions are tenacious. ..
These two, on the other hand, are doomed to a long life in an eternal and joyful face to face!
Lampblack patina enhanced with slate pigments. Large format bronze rhinoceros sculpture of animal art.
Smoke black patina enhanced with slate-colored pigments. It is a large format rhinoceros sculpture in fine art bronze.
Sophie Verger is a fairy who knows how to transform an emotion into an animal, a sensation, a felling in a recollected memory. She also suggests to us with a lot of humor a lovable identification with the animal model and beyond this observation the fact that in all her work, the child alone has its place with her, spontaneously capable of including the existence of the animal in her own fundamental values.
Sophie Verger combines anthropomorphic beings with human characters, and she mixes the human and the animal world in surprising ways. Through these mutations, her universe becomes moving, unstable, something is falling apart and uncertainty is twisting in it like a rift.
An absurd world, a human world, a world of humor. An universe of strange beings where man and beast were sometimes merges A world that nobody really believes in, but that must continue to pursue its existence. Condemned to exist. By echoing the complexity of human relationships, by remaining alien to received ideas, the world of Sophie Verger has lost its point of reference.
Sophie Verger plays with the pure reason of the look and lies the opposition of her interpretation.
Beyond anthropomorphism there is also, often, the notion of games. With animal representations worthy of Pompon but going beyond a simple realistic look, Sophie Verger sculpts poems, whole tales in one piece...