Sophie Verger French, b. 1953
21 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 7 7/8 in
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Further images
FR : Avec La Barque sacrée, créée en 2019 pour l’exposition « Bêtes à musée », Sophie Verger nous invite à un voyage dans l’espace et dans le temps. Cinq éléphants, empilés et perchés sur leurs trompes, descendent le Nil à bord d’une barque en forme de crocodile, évoquant les barques sacrées de l’Égypte ancienne.
Sa patine brune aux fonds plus clairs et son soclage en laiton brun noir donnent à cette sculpture en bronze (55 x 60 x 20 cm) une grande élégance. Un exemplaire a rejoint les collections du Powerlong Art Museum de Shanghai.
EN : With La Barque sacrée (The Sacred Boat), created in 2019 for the exhibition “Bêtes à musée”, Sophie Verger invites us on a journey through space and time. Five elephants, stacked up and perched on their trunks, sail down the Nile aboard a crocodile-shaped boat, evoking the sacred barques of ancient Egypt.
Its brown patina with lighter undertones and its brown-black brass mount give this bronze sculpture (55 x 60 x 20 cm) great elegance. One edition has joined the collection of the Powerlong Art Museum in Shanghai.
Provenance
It is a very old story, perhaps a myth, perhaps not, when the earth was a garden where they lived in peace, an era of harmony and of games: the childhood of the world. It was a time when the children of men learned to speak the language of the seal, even before the forces of nature incarnates themselves sometimes in the hippopotamus, sometimes in the crocodile.Exhibitions
July-Oct 2021: "TIMELESS", group exhibition, Art Thema • HéYī gallery, Brussels2022 Apr: London Art Fair, United-Kingdom
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