Head print of the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Maison des Arts de Bages from 20 June to 30 August 2020
Lionel Sabatté et Éric Chevillard / Chimères de rouille et de poussière
Head print of the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Maison des Arts de Bages from 20 June to 30 August 2020
On the occasion of the exhibition Chimères de rouille et de poussière at the Maison des Arts de Bages, Lionel Sabatté proposes us a series of original works, constituting the head print of the exhibition catalogue.
Let the artist himself talk about this new artwork:
"If my first wolves in dust were lying down, the next ones have risen; as for the last ones, they howl, standing up to what one imagines to be the moon. This movement naturally continued with the birds, almost all of which are eager to soar - back to the origin, one might say, of dust collected from the ground (and even the basement), though volatile in essence. ...] This taste for duality has naturally led me to chimeras, living but non-viable creatures, one-piece but multiple - they surface in almost everything I do, since always, and in this text again. Scribbling like all children of little men, I have seen them transform into hybrid animals holding the lion, the eagle, the dragon and the elephant - to stick to what I am able to name. At the same time, I went to visit the eel that my grandfather raised in a barrel in his cellar and let me feed on what seemed to me to be a reduction of itself, an earthworm. Nevertheless, everything is getting a bit blurry in my memory, and I might be confused with what we used to feed our catfish ... »
These productions are placed on the back cover of the book, contact us for more information on available prints.
978-2-36306-290-1
Data sheet
- Référence
- 978-2-36306-290-1
- Number of pages
- 132
- Size
- 21 x 27 cm
- Language
- Français
- ISBN
- 9782363062901
- Justification
- Signed
- Technique
- Paper Back
- Publication date
- 2020
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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