LIONEL SABATTE, born in 1975, lives and works in Paris.
Lionel Sabatté
LIONEL SABATTE, born in 1975, lives and works in Paris.
Lionel Sabatté has established himself as an iconic figure in contemporary art through his ability to work with a wide variety of materials (dust, human hair, oil, tree stumps, etc.). He gives all these materials, discarded or thrown away, a second life in sculptures, paintings and drawings that are like phantasmagorical dialogues with nature. For this artist, time becomes a material that he explores, notably by creating a whole bestiary that seems to come from the origins of time. His experimental work has recently focused on textiles, reinventing the idea of tapestry by producing works that are halfway between painting and sculpture. Lionel Sabatté has received several painting awards and has exhibited in major museums in France (including Saint-Etienne). In 2025, he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize
Works presented by the gallery :
1- Poussière des cimes, lunaire, 2023
Dust, turmeric, and glue on silkscreen canvas
120 × 195 cm
2- Pluie des cimes #4, 2023
Silkscreen print and dust on paper
175 × 100 cm
3- Poussière des cimes Meisenthal_01-04-2023 1#5, 2023
Silkscreen print, pigments, glue and dust on paper
109 × 78,5 cm
4- Lune Rousse du 10.01.2022, 2022
Oxidation on screen-printed metal plate
150 × 100 cm
5- Paysage d'outre cimes du 12.12.2021, 2021
Oxidation on screen-printed metal plate
150 × 100 cm
6- Blanc dodo, 2025
Monotype and drawing in Indian ink and oil on BFK Rives paper
121 × 80 cm
7- Fantasma Grande du 06-04-2022, 2022
Monotype and drawing on used blotting paper
100 × 70 cm
8- Fantasma du 04-09-2025, 2025
Ink, walnut stain, oil on macule paper
31 × 41 cm
9- Fantasma du 31-08-2025, 2025
Ink, walnut stain, oil on macule paper
31 × 41 cm
10- Organisme noctambule du 08-03-2021, 2021
Monotype, ink and drawing on black paper
50 × 70 cm
11- La pêche du 29-02-2024, 3_4, 2024
Monotype, oil spill tar, oil, and pigment on paper
76,5 × 57,5 cm
12- Table, 2024
Oil and pigments, silkscreen photograph on sheet metal
14 × 21 cm
13- Cuis, 2024
Oil and pigments, silkscreen photograph on sheet metal
14 × 21 cm
14- Coquille, 2025
Woven wool and mixed media
190 × 190 cm
15- Trompes, 2025
Woven wool and mixed media
190 × 190 cm
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.
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