Sophie Verger French, b. 1953
Waterproof for garden
28kg
33 7/8 x 28 3/4 x 10 1/4 in
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I took up the theme of my animal statue "elephant with a bird". The sculpture came very easily from my hands as if flowing naturally.
The elephant is talking with the bird perched on its curved trunk, giving the sculpture an airy feel. A slate gray patina highlights the baby elephant's very textured skin.
This bronze animal sculpture was made at the Harze art foundry. Four copies have already been placed in gardens, including two in the United States.
This revival of the elephant with the bird will find its place in any garden.
Provenance
This could be a metaphor for the role of parents: helping their children take flight one after the other. And it’s not that simple, sometimes even quite acrobatic. This matriarch or patriarch joyfully helps her baby elephants to see further, higher !!
I created a very rounded composition with a vanishing line, the baby elephant on the trunk which defies the law of gravity a little!
It is a sculpture of a beautiful format magnified by a slate gray patina highlighting “the skin of the bronze”
Exhibitions
Nov 2024: Namur Antica, BelgiumLiterature
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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