Great Bear in Kamchatka or Flying Fish, 2025
Sculpture : bronze · 67 x 25.5 x 21 cm 26.4 x 10 x 8.3 inch
$9,104
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About the artwork
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Sculpture : numbered and limited to 12 copies
1 copy available
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
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Signature
Artwork signed in the mold
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
67 x 25.5 x 21 cm 26.4 x 10 x 8.3 inch Height x Width x Depth
Dimensions of pedestal:
3 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm 1.2 x 10 x 10 inch
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Description
New creation from 2025.
Available directly and exclusively to order from the Art Yi gallery in Brussels.
French artist.
Created in a Belgian foundry.
An artist's book is offered.
For the final version of the Kamchatka trilogy, I imagined a bear, delighted by his miraculous catch, whose fish fly away like birds, a poetic image. He watches them peacefully and smiling. No matter, he has enough left to feed his offspring!
The bear, for me, symbolizes protection and the fish symbolizes life.
The warm brown patina highlights the green of the fish and the bronze base guarantees good stability for the whole.
“I work on the thread of emotion, on what helps us live, the encounter, childhood memories, animal caresses, the beauty of things."
- Sophie Verger
• It is a very ancient story, perhaps a myth or perhaps not, when the earth was a garden where they lived in peace, a time of harmony and play: the childhood of the world. It was a time when the young of men learned to speak seal, even before the forces that govern nature were incarnated sometimes as hippopotamuses, sometimes as crocodiles.
• This is where Sophie Verger guides us, among her Museum Beasts, into a peaceful world where a blissful carelessness reigns... And carelessness is needed to defy the laws of gravity as her models often do: no matter, where art reigns, with a vigorous trunk nothing is impossible.
• Sophie Verger sculpts poems, entire tales in a single piece… All these oppositions were only a step towards learning to resist everything that would never again be experienced in the indulgence of childhood. What mattered after all was to have undeniable support in the face of the adult world, if we conform to the herd to the detriment of our own lives, we let the child that we are disappear completely and will never be whole.
Presentation
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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