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Sophie Verger, Big bear and his cub,
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Sophie Verger, Big bear and his cub,
Sophie Verger, Big bear and his cub,
Sophie Verger, Big bear and his cub,

Big bear and his cub, 2022
Sophie Verger   Emerging artists

Sculpture : bronze · 122 x 72 x 40 cm 48 x 28.3 x 15.7 inch

€36,000 36 000 €

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Sculpture : numbered and limited to 12 copies

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bronze , without pedestal

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The sculpture can be displayed outdoors

Dimensions ( cm • inch )

122 x 72 x 40 cm 48 x 28.3 x 15.7 inch Height x Width x Depth

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"My preoccupation concerns the representation of forms, the expression of a set moment in time, the quality of the patina which gives life to the bronze, of the choice of clay with regard to the subject. It is rather simple in fact ... to question, to surprise and to create emotion."

“I work on the thread of emotion, on what helps us to live; a meeting, childhood memories, an animal cares, the beauty of things.

I’m looking for the point of balance where the animal exists by itself whilst using its anatomical peculiarities to evoke a situation. In conclusion, I would say that my work plunges into the cultural “pass / present” reservoir to speak of living beings and of us men through the animal mask, uniting man and beast in the same experience. In this sense, I hope it is timeless and dream that I join the vast brotherhood of sculptors ranging from the creator of the lion man of the Hohlestein-Stadel cave at Carriès or the Lalannes.

I see creation as entering a labyrinth whose meandering paths are drawn by the unconscious, both one’s own and that of others with the emotions that arise from it. “

-- SOPHIE VERGER


Sophie Verger 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.

Sophie Verger combines anthropomorphic beings with human characters, and she mixes the human and the animal world in surprising ways. Through these mutations, her universe becomes moving, unstable, something is falling apart and uncertainty is twisting in it like a rift.

An absurd world, a human world, a world of humor. An universe of strange beings where man and beast were sometimes merges A world that nobody really believes in, but that must continue to pursue its existence. Condemned to exist. By echoing the complexity of human relationships, by remaining alien to received ideas, the world of Sophie Verger has lost its point of reference.

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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Sophie Verger

Sophie Verger

France  • 1953
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Sophie Verger was born in Paris in 1953. As a teenager, she attends The Academy of La Grande Chaumière and evening classes at Montparnasse 80. After a while, during 1970, she prepares the university entrance examination for Schools of Art in Paris at the Academy of Art Roedrer, place des Vosges. In 1971, she starts Nissim de Camondo school where she discovers sculpture during drawing workshops at the Bourdelle Museum and takes the exam at School of Fine Arts of Paris. She meets there Etienne Martin who deeply encourages her in this way and follows a classic education at the Favrat Studio.

Afterward and during several years , she opens a Studio where she models, draws, and organizes exhibitions. In 1991, first exhibition in Paris at the Colette Dubois gallery. Amazed by the exhibition at the Louvre on german sculpture of the XVth century, she begins a diversion work by modelling virgins with heads of animals dressed in big drapes which will be exposed en1995 for the Whistable festival in Great Britain. Series of shields come later from 1996. She creates, at that time, among others, a piling of timeless warriors inspired by Craonne song. This piece is presented in 1999 at Lineart of Ghent. Then is born the serie of eggs, eggs which explode, releasing characters with wide eyes opened.

A first large-scale exhibition takes place in 1999 at Grouchy Castle for whom Jeannine Rivais writes an article. A second exhibition takes place at Rope factory, a former factory located to Etaples, near Touquet.

In 2000 she wins a Public Award for the exhibition "Sculpture and garden" in Lille on the animal theme, which becomes little by little for her an inexhaustible source of inspiration, strengthened by its meeting with Caroline Corre and the thematic exhibition"animal". She edits her first bronzes. The Got gallery presents its work. First personal exhibition abroad in Brussels in 2001 in the Antic and Art gallery and first exhibition at the Pompon Museum in 2003. The same year, the Lise Cormery gallery, will exposed her first rhinoceros.

At the MAC exhibitions in 2003 and 2005, she establishes a deep professional network which allow her to widen her representativeness. Several municipalities acquire her works. Daniel Boulanger, met through the Gilbert Dufois gallery writes on his work. In 2008, she exposes for the first time in Germany, then at the Burgerweshuis of Zierikzee in Netherlands. Then, several exhibitions will follow. Today, she is preparing an exhibition that will occur in Paris in June, 2014 both in two places: one at the main courtyard of Sorbonne (face to the Pantheon) and at Lise Cormery gallery , Lanneau street.

Her work is now present in collections deprived in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and Netherlands.

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