Sophie Verger, Dans l'arène ou mon taureau préféré / In the Arena or My Favourite Bull, 2017

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Bronze

40 x 35 x 12 cm
15 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 4 3/4 in

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A sculpture inspired by the ancient Cretan representations. It could also be called my favourite bull. 'That's was long before the dolphins came to rescue the shipwrecked and the she-wolf...

A sculpture inspired by the ancient Cretan representations. It could also be called my favourite bull.

"That's was long before the dolphins came to rescue the shipwrecked and the she-wolf took charge of the abandoned twins, when, like the Minoans, the acrobats and the bulls danced in the arena a ballet whose death was not the outcome"

G.D. Extract from the catalog “Beasts in museum”

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...

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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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