Sabine Pigalle
Vermeer Rafaello
2016
Printed on fine art paper
120 × 180 cm
Ed. 3/3
Location: Paris, France
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About the artwork
From the still life on the left to the portrait of a young woman with a porcelain complexion, the figurative part of this diptych has all the hallmarks of a 17th-century genre painting. The scene, taken from life, is reminiscent of Vermeer's compositions, with a Caravaggio-like treatment of light. This is contrasted by an abstract landscape, whose colors seem to evoke the distant, troubled memory of the central composition. The interplay between the ancient and the contemporary is as much in the opposition of pictorial genres as in their mnemonic symbolism. This work is part of a series entitled In Memoriam, in which Sabine Pigalle brings together photography and painting, ancient and contemporary, and nourishes her work with references to the great painters of art history.
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This diptych is a remarkable illustration of Sabine Pigalle's play on hybridization. Invoking references dear to art history, the artist orchestrates their encounter with contemporary themes and media.
About the artist
Born in Rouen in 1963, Sabine Pigalle is an artist who lives and works in Paris. She began her artistic career collaborating with fashion photographers such as Ellen von Unwerth, and has continued to focus on the photographic medium ever since. Her current work plays on the hybridization of themes and media, enabling her to question notions of myth, heritage, collective memory and temporality. These hybridizations have earned her association with the Post-photography movement, defined in 1988 by Joan Fontcuberta as "the act of either assigning meaning when images are created, or displacing meaning when these images are given new life". His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions around the world, including at Galerie Odile Ouizeman in Paris in 2021, Palazzo Bragadin in Venice in 2017 and Nexus Hall Chanel Ginza in Tokyo in 2014. Her In Memoriam series was exhibited at galerie RX in 2017, which currently represents her.
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