Sophie Verger French, 1953
8 1/4 x 20 1/8 x 6 1/4 in
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The care that elephant groups take in the education and protection of baby elephants is well known. This matriarch avoids a fall to her little one with tenderness and humor. Everything that should preside over the education of our little ones, us men!
The position of the elephants is reinforced by the shape of the promontory which evokes a bit of a wave. A sculpture all in tension, extension and I hope emotion!
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...