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Lionel Sabatté – Ce qui reste
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Between construction and ruin, between power and fragility, Lionel Sabatté’s ambivalent forms carry within them their own instability, drifting toward landscape, toward formlessness, toward what eludes us—what remains.
A painter and sculptor attuned to matter and time, Lionel Sabatté has developed a body of work in which beauty emerges from alteration, discarded materials and survival. Alert to accidents, traces and the residues of his own creative process, he invites us to recognize in every imprint the possibility of an apparition, and in every disappearance the promise of transformation. His work thus proposes a way of inhabiting time.
For the exhibition What Remains, presented this autumn at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, Lionel Sabatté brings together around one hundred works, ranging from historic pieces to new creations, all reproduced in our exhibition catalogue.
Between construction and ruin, between power and fragility, these ambivalent forms carry within them their own instability, drifting toward landscape, toward formlessness, toward what eludes us—what remains.
The exhibition catalogue includes a foreword by Alice Gandin, an essay by curator Amélie Adamo, and contributions from philosopher Vinciane Despret; writer and art critic Yannick Mercoyrol; and Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat, art historian and director of the Petit Palais.
The book is co-published with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.
Data sheet
- Number of pages
- 752
- Size
- 22 x 29 cm
hardback - Language
- French/
- ISBN
- 978-2-36306-386-1
- Publication date
Sabatté (Lionel)
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2003, Lionel Sabatté has received several artistic awards such as the Painting Prize from the Del Luca Foundation in 2019, the Friends of the Maison Rouge Prize which enabled him to produce a work, presented in the patio of the foundation in 2018, the Drawing Now Prize in 2017 and was awarded the Yishu 8 Prize in Beijing in 2011.
His work has been the subject of many monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, integrating several institutional collections. The sphere of the living as well as the transformations of matter due to the passage of time are at the heart of Lionel Sabatté's work. For several years now, the artist has been collecting materials that bear the traces of his life experience: dust, ashes, coal, dead skins, tree stumps... These elements are combined in an unexpected way and the works thus created carry within them both a delicacy and a "disturbing strangeness", giving life to a hybrid bestiary in which creatures from the abyssal depths rub shoulders with small birds from the oxidised islands, bears, wolves, emus, owls, but also unicorns... Practising at the same time painting, drawing and sculpture, Lionel Sabatté tries to make all his works interact in a permanent interconnection. His research on the mineral, the animal, the organic in short, gives rise to poetic, sensitive and disturbing works which participate in a global reflection on our condition and the place we occupy in our environment.