Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research sophie calles mixture of artistic strategy with daily life is one of the conceptional leads in photography. Born in paris, calle traveled for seven years after completing her studies. She then began contacting the peoplein essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances. Sophie calle is the author, narrator and main protagonist of her. This community page is administrated by claire duchesne in agreement with the artist and galerie perrotin. Her playful lifeasart work doesnt stop with magazine photo shoots. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. An installation by artists george camille and daniel dodin. Personal structures identities european cultural centre. The jurade a bit like high priests of wine start the grape harvest with a parade, banquet. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book. This commodity does not happen to be bronze or marble, however, but information, the elusive stuff that circulates constantly between consciousness, document and cyberspace. Publications include further work on marie taglionis career le vedettariat.
Visual art rarely provokes the kind of emotional response that literature or film can. In the late 1970s, her career began when she photographed the. Like a sculptor of a past century, sophie calle in her art manipulates and reconfigures a commodity central to the economy of her time. 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 published the photographs within the diarylike report of her observations, in the book entitled ecrit sur limage. Sophie calle true stories by sophie calle goodreads. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. Many of her works juxtapose writing and photography to question. French conceptual and installation artist and photographer whose works explored human interactions. 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. Most famous for such projects as suite venitienne from 1979 and the shadow. Camille pissarro the elder statesman of impressionism. Sophie calle s 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 photographs. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the map. Published by flammarion groupe union distribution dez 2019 2019 isbn. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calle s oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. With marie glon, sophie jacotot, vannina olivesi and juan ignacio vallejos. Sophie calle, the tie, for parkett 36 the parkett books. Sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. Paris, france, 1953 uses the mediums of photography, video, film, books, text, and performance to pursue her sociological and autobiographical investigations. Pdf sophie calle and the performance of pain jezebel mansell. 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.
Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. The book is perhaps to be read as a kind of diary, playing with the fictionfact dichotomy, as all of calles work. The fertile mind of sophie calle the new york times. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence sophie calle. Sophie calle was the recipient of the 2010 hasselblad award for photography and the 2017 icp infinity award. Catalog 2018 arts and nature foreign rights by actes sud issuu. The images below show images of the chromatic diet.
Her work often incorporates elements of voyeurism, surveillance, and personal narrative to explore the nature of love, intimacy, violence and death. Camille laurens, le kaleidoscope dune ecriture hantee. Sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. 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. 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 asked writer and filmmaker paul auster to invent a fictive character which i would attempt to resemble and served as the model for the character maria in austers novel leviathan. This mingling of fact and fiction so intrigued calle that she created the works of art created by the fictional character, which included a series of colorcoordinated meals. This method of selection is well and truly part of sophie calle s artistic approach. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner.
Sophie calle and the san francisco bay area missing and the related programming add a new chapter to sophie calles special relationship with the san francisco bay area. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it to its anonymous owner. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research daniel. In the new exhibition by sophie calle, the french artist known. Below it, three columns of italic text are diary entries describing findings in the hotel room between sunday 22 february 1981 and tuesday 24. The christmas banquet from mosses from an old manse english. Sophie calle the leading french conceptual artist calle. The book true stories was made when calle received the hasselblad prize for photography in 2010. Illustrated throughout with colour and monochrome photographs. In april 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detetctive agency. In a 2008 conversation between artists sophie calle and jill magid, calle noted that lhomme au carnet aka the address book, 1983 was her only work to date where she went.
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. This is a twopart framed work comprising photographs and text. In the upper part, the title room 47 is printed below a colour photograph of elegantly carved wooden twin headboards behind a bed covered in rich brown satin. Sophie calle french pavilion 52nd venice biennale 2007. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Lhotel calle turns the viewer or reader into an accomplice of her voyeurism filling them, too, with the urge to move unobserved through anothers private sphere. Sophie calle artist books, photographs, prints, editions. Chief seattle, pierre bonnard, camille saintsaens and the mayas. The sensation that has lingered from an artists talk sophie calle gave at the school of visual arts in new york years ago is the thrilling suspicion that she was quite effortlessly bluffing her way through much of it. Romans et recits, essais, theatre, livres sur les mots. Sophie calles art practice has a specific connection to the legacies of conceptual art.
When chosen to exhibit in the french pavilion at the 2007 venice biennale, sophie calle put an ad in the newspaper to recruit an enthusiastic person to act as exhibition curator. 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. Marie taglionis pose, with a dreamy air, her left hand resting on a pile of books, is a. Detectives, disappearances and deceit in the crime autofictions of calle.
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