Her art typically evolves from an orchestrated event or situation, which calle documents with photographs and texts. When she returned to paris in 1979, she began a series of projects to familiarize herself with the people of the city, through which she hoped to construct identities by offering documentary proof in the form of photographs. She is a writer, photographer, director, installation artist, and conceptual artist. A hotel room inhabited by the artist but also by the objects that she has meticulously arranged in it.
Sophie calle encourages a reflection on those relationships that, in their presence or absence, define each persons identity. The reader, absence recurs in calles oeuvre as a generative drive. Oct 08, 2012 sophie calles the address book, an excerpt. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book. A handsome example in dust jacket of the uncommon 1984 first edition in. Rachel monique, festival davignon, eglise des celestins, avignon, france. Join facebook to connect with sophie avignon and others you may know. On march 18, 1990, one of the most brazen art thefts of all time took place at bostons isabella stewart gardner museum. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. Combining image and text, she proceeds to a methodic unveiling of reality, hers or others, leaving an impor.
Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. Follow sophie calle and explore their bibliography from s sophie calle author page. Sophie calle view of the exhibition chambre 20 in 20. The postmodernist french thinker, jean baudrillard, in an essay for the resulting book, pointed. Sophie calle, the tie, for parkett 36 the parkett books. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Variously described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director, and even a detective, she has developed a practice that is instantly recognizable for its distinct narrative elements and frequent combination of images with text. A controversial figure as well as one of frances leading conceptual artists, sophie calle explores her own psychological and emotional terrain in multimedia works, probing ideas of control, freedom, gender, intimacy, and distance in human relationships. She was born in paris on october 9th, 1953 59 years old. Macel, christine, bois, yvealain, rolin, olivier on.
Over the past decade, the french artist sophie calle has created works that explore the enigmatic terrain of human identity and interaction. Take care of yourself is a whip smart, elegant monument to the complicated matter that is romantic communication. Sophie calle born 1953 is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid. When a boyfriend brokeup with her by email, french artist sophie calle asked 107 women to read the letter and to analyse it according to their professional interest. This will be the artists second oneperson exhibition with the gallery since double game, in february march 2001. Sophie calles voyeuristic fascination with the lives of others inspired the hotel, a project she executed in the early 1980s while posing as a chambermaid at a hotel in venice, italy.
Calle s work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. Apr 10, 2017 over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. This commodity does not happen to be bronze or marble, however, but information, the elusive stuff that circulates constantly between consciousness, document and cyberspace. In 1981, calle took a job as a chambermaid at a venice hotel and secretly photographed the rooms in the absence of the guests. Sophie calle artist books, photographs, prints, editions. Sophie calle is fascinated by the interface between our public lives and our private selves. Suite venitienneplease follow me is a collaborative project created by sophie calle and jean baudrillard which is primarily concerned with the concept of tracing. Like a sculptor of a past century, sophie calle in her art manipulates and reconfigures a commodity central to the economy of her time. In a 2008 conversation between artists sophie calle and jill magid, calle noted that lhomme au carnet aka the address book, 1983 was her. Even though anonymous, each tomb in the triptych contains a real body that was once a person and remains alive as a memory and as a site allowing the opportunity to worship that memory by the survivors. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo.
Sophie calle a ete decrite comme une artiste conceptuelle, une photographe. Sophie calles voyeuristic fascination with the lives of others inspired the hotel, a project she executed in the early 1980s while posing as. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. I read a section, two or three entries in a sitting. Born in paris, calle traveled for seven years after completing her studies.
The exhibition will be on view from may 7 through june 25, 2005, at 534 west 21st street. The violation was devastating to both the gardners. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. Of sophie to boarding school when he came to visit my mother, would sit on expectantly at him. Mar 07, 2009 sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. When she returned to paris in 1979, she began a series of projects to familiarize herself with the people of the city, through which she hoped to construct identities by offering documentary proof in the form of photogra. Sophie calle ouvre sa chambre 20 au festival davignon. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. Sep 03, 2008 when a boyfriend brokeup with her by email, french artist sophie calle asked 107 women to read the letter and to analyse it according to their professional interest. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. Over the past thirty years, sophie calle has invited strangers to sleep in her bed, followed a man through the streets of paris to venice, hired a detective to spy on herself before providing a report of her day, taken a job as a chambermaid in a hotel to photograph guests personal.
The detective in april 1981, at my request, my mother wc. This comprehensive retrospective of sophie calle not only celebrates the breadth of her iconoclastic work but also leads to a deeper understanding of her unique artistic vision. Her most extraordinary works address rather ordinary human tendencies, from the morbid curiosity informing lhomme au carnet the address book, 1983 to the amorous betrayal of douleur exquise exquisite pain, 19842003, but calle knows how to up the. Sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.
The work of conceptual artist sophie calle embraces numerous media. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calle s oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. In fact, the sheer logic of that act makes this all very sophie calle. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. She then began contacting the peoplein essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances. In her work, she has attempted to metaphorically seduce her. Artist sophie calle will join voyagers on a trip to the arctic as part of this years cape farewell, a programme bringing artists and scientists together to raise awareness of climate change. Welcomed throughout the world, sophie calle came to the festival d avignon for the first time in 2012 with rachel, monique, a performanceexhibition devoted to her recently deceased mother. Lhotel is sophie calles artists book that purports to recount in text and image her 1981 journal as a chambermaid in a parisian hotel. Published in 1984, sophie calle s lhotel is a perfect book. In suite venitienne, sophie calles first artists bookand the crucible of her inimitable and provocative fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the artful composition of selfshe notates, in diaristic, timestamped entries, her surveillance of. The world is no longer written on maps, it is written in the encyclopedia. This has led her to investigate patterns of behaviour using techniques akin to those of a private investigator, a psychologist, or a forensic scientist. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists.
She has mounted solo shows at major museums around the world and represented france at the venice biennale in 2007. New yorkthe paula cooper gallery is pleased to present exquisite pain, an exhibition by acclaimed french artist sophie calle. Two men dressed in police uniforms made off with thirteen of the museums treasures, including jan vermeers the concert 165860, govaert flincks landscape with an obelisk 1638, and three works by rembrandt. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. The photographs in the book arent its important aspects. Sophie calle is a unique and opinionated french artist with a very unique view on the individuals we are surrounded by and the world we inhabit. True stories by sophie calle and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the map. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Sophie calle, mastu vue sophie calle, christine macel. Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. The text is comprised of the juxtaposition of two very different works. Sophie calle, femme araignee, recoit chambre 20 lobs.
Sep 30, 2012 the address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calle s oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Often controversial, calles projects explore issues of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity. Archives 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 20 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006. Fifty postcards featuring sophie calles bestknown works. With blind, french conceptual artist sophie calle born 1953 revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. Mar 21, 20 sophie calle is a unique and opinionated french artist with a very unique view on the individuals we are surrounded by and the world we inhabit.
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