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Lionel Sabatté

The sphere of life as well as the transformations of the materials due to time passing are at the core of Lionel Sabatté‘s work. A complete artist, he practices painting, drawing and sculpture at the same time, making all his works interact in a permanent interconnection. His research on mineral and animal lead to poetic, sensitive and disturbing works which participate in a global reflection on our condition and the place we occupy in our environment.

Following an artistic approach based on experimentation and exploration, he works with materials that are sometimes trivial, collecting dust, ash, coal, dead skin, tree stumps, oxidized iron, and bronze… which he combines. The works thus created carry both a delicacy and a “disturbing strangeness”, giving life to a hybrid bestiary: horses, bees, birds, bears, wolves, owls, unicorns…

Nourished by an imaginary approach to the world of fables, the animal figure, which is not innocent of a thought on the species, its evolution, and its mutations, is omnipresent in the work of Lionel Sabatté. Through the animal, we are confronted with our own monstrosity.

For the 2023 edition, Lionel Sabatté is collaborating with Private Choice to co-produce a hybrid creation, part art object, part design furniture. This is a sculptural stool made of bronze with a turtle-like appearance, whose long limbs make it a supernatural creature. This unique piece called Turtool mischievously transgresses the limits of furniture, to dream an animal-shaped stool, whose metal alloy adds preciousness.

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Biography

Lionel Sabatté is a French artist born in 1975 and graduated from ENSBAP (2003). He lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

  • 2023 / Pollens clandestins, Château de Chambord, Chambord, France – Commissariat / Curated by : Yannick Mercoyrol
  • 2023 / Chemins croisés, Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
  • 2022 / La Ruche, Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès en partenariat avec Vent des forêts, Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, France
  • 2021 / «Possible remains of our future», Ceysson & Bénetière, New York, Etats-Unis
  • 2021 / «Éclosions», MAMC Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint Etienne, France
  • 2020 / «Fragments mouvants», Fondation Bullukian, Lyon, France
  • 2020 / «Chimères de rouille et de poussière», La Maison des Arts, Bages, France
  • 2019 / IN SITU, Patrimoine et Art contemporain 2019, Association Le Passe Muraille, commissaire d’exposition : Pascale Pique, Grotte de Bédeillac, Ariège, France
  • 2019 / «Brume dorée, cendre et poussière», Musée du Gévaudan, Mende, France
  • 2019 / Lionel Sabatté : sculptures, Centre d’art nomade, Toulouse, France
  • 2019 / «Qui sait combien de fleurs ont dû tomber», Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois / Musée
  • 2019 / Gadagne / Fondation Bullukian, Lyon, France
  • 2018 / «Demeure», Patio de la Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  • 2018 / «La morsure de l’air», Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
  • 2018 / Tanières, Atelier Estienne – centre d’Art Contemporain, Pont-Scorff, France
  • 2017 / Luxembourg Art week, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
  • 2017 / Mirabilia, Musée Joseph Denais, Beaufort-en-Vallée, France
  • 2017 / «Chassé-croisé», Château de Champlitte, Haute-Saône, France
  • 2017 / «Zoocryptage», Crypte Sainte-Eugénie, Biarritz, France
  • 2017 / «La sélection de Parentèle», Musée de la Chasse, Paris, France
  • 2017 / «Catwalk, Please do not enter», Los Angeles, USA
  • 2016 / «Tectonique des mutations», Beaux-arts, Grenoble, France
  • 2016 / «Charbons fertiles», MAC Artuem, Chateauneuf-le-Rouge, France
  • 2016 / «La désobéissance», curated by Magali Gentet, Le vParvis, Tarbes-Pyrénées, France
  • 2016 / «Échafaudages d’une éclosion», Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Mayenne, France
  • 2015 / «Échafaudages d’une caresse», Musée de Vernon, France
  • 2015 / «Échafaudages sur le ressac», Carré Amelot/ Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, La Rochelle.
  • 2015 / «Échafaudage d’un printemps», Curated by Huang Du, Yishu 8, Beijing, China
  • 2015 / «Projet Phoenix rouge», Commande publique de l’Unesco et de l’État Mauricien, Mauritius
  • 2014 / «La fabrique des profondeurs», Aquarium du Trocadéro, Paris, France
  • 2014 / «La constance des alizés», Institut français de Maurice, Mauritius
  • 2014 / «Lionel Sabatté : Un autre monde», curated by Philippe Piguet, Abbaye Saint-Jean d’Orbestier, France
  • 2012 / «Le crocodile en pièces», FIAC Hors les murs Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France
  • 2011 / «La meute», FIAC Hors les murs, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France

PRIZES

  • 2020 / Prize-winner from Luxembourg Art Prize
  • 2019 / Prize-winner of painting from Fondation Del Duca
  • 2018 / Prize-winner from Amis de la Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert
  • 2017 / Prize-winner Drawing Now, Paris
  • 2015 / Residence Tour Saint-Ange / Colette Tornier, Seyssins, France
  • 2014 / Residence pARTage, Institut français de Maurice, Maurice
  • 2013 / Vent des Forêts, Meuse, France
  • 2011 / Prize-winner Yishu 8, Pékin, Chine
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