Sophie Verger, Offrande Version 2 / The Offering Version 2, 2018

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Bronze on brass plinth plate
Very nuanced brown patina

10 x 23 x 8 cm
4 x 9 x 3 1/8 in

Limited edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs

Museum acquisition Big bear and the little girl which entered the collections of the Pompon Museum in 2016.
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Sophie Verger plays with the pure reason of the look and lies the opposition of her interpretation. She shows here, by these two entities - girl / bear - is...

Sophie Verger plays with the pure reason of the look and lies the opposition of her interpretation. She shows here, by these two entities - girl / bear - is it a kiss, a hug, a talking, or a game ? Finally... all these oppositions were just a step towards learning to resist anything that would never be lived again through the indulgence of childhood. What mattered after all was to have unquestionable support in the face of the adult world because, if we conform to the herd at the expense of our own lives, we completely let go of the child that we are and we will never whole.

She 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.

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... She offers both the subject of our childhood and a primitive reminder to the child who remains in us, to return to that essential of life after which we run, all of us every day.

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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.

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Sophie Verger French, 1953

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