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Sophie Verger French, b. 1953
La Barque Sacrée / The Sacred Boat, 2019Bronze
Golden brown patina
Including a socle assembly of two patinated brass bronze plates
Sculpture created for "Bêtes a Muséé" exhibition, France
Acquisition by the Powerlong Art Museum Shangai, China
Acquisition by H.N.LIN Design Center, Shanghai, China
55 x 60 x 20 cm
21 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 7 7/8 inLimited edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofsAvailable in gallery
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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...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 humour. An univers 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...
Provenance
It is a very old story, perhaps a myth, perhaps not, when the earth was a garden where they lived in peace, an era of harmony and of games: the childhood of the world. It was a time when the children of men learned to speak the language of the seal, even before the forces of nature incarnates themselves sometimes in the hippopotamus, sometimes in the crocodile.Exhibitions
July-Oct 2021: "Timeless", group exhibition, Art Yī gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Apr 2022: London Art Fair, United-Kingdom
Oct 2022: "A Tale of Animal", Art Yi gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Apr 2023: Luxembourg Art Fair, Luxexpo The Box, Luxembourg
Oct 2024: "In the air" exhibition, Art Yi gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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