The Timequakes series expresses the chaos witnessed by the artist during the Japanese earthquake of March 2011. Transposing material destruction into a temporal pileup, Sabine Pigalle mingles painted court portraits from the late 15th, 16th and early 17th century with contemporary photographic portraits.
Brought into collision by the lights of the modern city, they expose the layering of different eras, like a collage.
The artist recycles and mixes her own photographs, originally shot and compiled as a source of future works, (paintings, portraits, and Tokyo lights). These hybrid portraits create a bridge between painting and photography, figuration and abstraction, past and modern art.
Timequakes, beyond an aesthetic and precious first dance, is treating of the temporal sedimentation of our cultural patrimony, misappropriation and lure.
Timequakes
After Leonardo Da Vinci
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Jan Van Eyck
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After Petrus Christus
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After Pisanello
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After Gerard de Saint Jean
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After Lorenzo Di Credi
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After Jan Van Eyck
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Piero Di Cosimo
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Rogier Van Der Weyden
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
After Lucas Cranach The Elder
Copyright © Sabine Pigalle, courtesy Louise Alexander Gallery
Courtesy the artist and Louise Alexander Gallery
Timequakes is on exhibit at Art Paris Art Fair, 2013, Grand Palais
March 28 - April 1, 2013
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March 28 - April 1, 2013
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Marvellous paintings !
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