This mingling of fact and fiction so intrigued calle that she created the works of art created by the fictional character, which included a. Many of her works juxtapose writing and photography to question. For me, art is about seeing my environment in new ways and capturing the shapes, colors, and textures that light and my own curiosity reveals. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. She then began contacting the peoplein essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Sophie calle true stories sophie calle, nechama guralnik on. On march 18, 1990, one of the most brazen art thefts of all time took place at bostons isabella stewart gardner museum. Her work often incorporates elements of voyeurism, surveillance, and personal narrative to explore the nature of love, intimacy, violence and death. In the late 1970s, finding herself at loose ends in paris, she started playing games with unwitting strangers. In 2006, as her mother lay dying, calle set up a camera at her deathbed and. Courtesy of sophie calle, paula cooper gallery, new york, and isabella.
Sophie calle has made a number of works that explore the artists voyeuristic nature, whether following strangers or employing others to follow her. Dan walsh installations publisher paula cooper gallery, ny published 2018 author. I began my painting career highly influenced by the plein air movement of southern california. The triptych les tombes displays images of marble graves without any reference to dates, places or names. In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from her lover the day he ended their affair. 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. In 2005, sophie calles mother found out she had breast cancer. First and most dominant is the stand alone installation take care of yourself, previously presented as part of the 2007 venice biennale. Sophie calle is famous, and the few bum notes in this show a video about a works failure is a little bit gratuitous are too conscious of that. 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. 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 belongings, asked blind people to tell her about. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence sophie calle. 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. I asked for the moon and i got it when sophie calle first tried photography, she was told to pick another career.
According to the new york observer, the history of paula cooper gallery is, in many ways, the history of the new york art world. She then rang the numbers in the book to assemble a. Like all of calles best work, her greenwood project draws a strong connection between private and public life. There is no work in which this is more pronounced than in the husband, the continuation of calles ongoing project autobiographical stories. Nov 20, 2015 the following interview appears in issue 96 of brick, which hits stores in the first week of december before people started telling her she was an artist, sophie calle was a young woman with a camera, an unusually intense curiosity, and time on her hands. New york anthology film archives and the paula cooper gallery are pleased to present sophie calle and greg shephards 1992 film, no sex last night double blind. Click on the view objects by this artist link brooklyn museum, new york city centre pompidou, paris in french information about the 20032004 exhibition sophie calle.
Author paul auster, sophie calle publisher violette editions published 2000 isbn 9781900828284 cover hardcover page count 296 color images 85 bw images 373. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence. Her playful lifeasart work doesnt stop with magazine photo shoots. You sit in a pew and realize that instead of a prayer book, the rack holds. The rules of the game in his novel, leviathan, paul auster thanks me for having authorized him to mingle fact with fiction. A short interview with deutsche borse photography foundation prize 2017 nominee sophie calle. The violation was devastating to both the gardners. Calle is the first one i have looked at for this exercise. Sophie calles new exhibition, absence, is an examination of loss, which she explores through. Available for sale from paula cooper gallery, sophie calle, autobiographies morning 2016, digital print with text panel, 220. Feb 23, 2011 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. Great women artists, phaidon and kering, new york, 2019. May 01, 2017 calles plan is for the obelisk to remain installed for at least 25 more years.
Buy and sell signed multiples and original paintings at fair prices on kunzt. 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. This will be the artists second oneperson exhibition with the gallery since double game, in february march 2001. Please note that artwork locations are subject to change, and not all works are on view at all times. The french artist asked 107 women to analyse the letter according to their professional interest. Apr 10, 2017 sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. Les tombes the graves detail, 1990 gelatin silver print on aluminum tryptich 180 x 100 cm each museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien. Most controversially, calle finds a mans address book and returns it to him, but not before photocopying its contents, interviewing the people. Rachel, monique, sophie calles installation at the episcopal church of the heavenly rest, examines her mothers life and death through photographs, diary entries and a deathbed film.
Sophie calle exquisite pain, 15 days ago 1984 available. An art gallery in new york city founded in 1968 featuring minimalist and conceptual works by artists such as carl andre, tauba auerbach, jennifer bartlett, bernd and. Sophie calle is a french contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Oct 18, 2009 sophie calle is famous, and the few bum notes in this show a video about a works failure is a little bit gratuitous are too conscious of that. The following interview appears in issue 96 of brick, which hits stores in the first week of december before people started telling her she was an artist, sophie calle was a young woman with a camera, an unusually intense curiosity, and time on her hands. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Talking to strangers consists of three gallery spaces in which can be explored the autobiographical and anthropological work of sophie calle. Calles principal tool is language, with the visual component filling an illustrative role. 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 calles secrets art project at greenwood cemetery. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. Take care of yourself, paula cooper gallery, new york, usa.
In 1981 she took a job as a chambermaid in a venetian hotel with the intention of gathering information about its. Education born into a family of an oncologist who was a celebrated art collector and a center stage mother, sophie calle was raised into an uncommon atmosphere. 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. Born in paris, calle traveled for seven years after completing her studies. 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. I will be posting an influential artist and their work frequently. Sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. May 16, 2014 rachel, monique, sophie calles installation at the episcopal church of the heavenly rest, examines her mothers life and death through photographs, diary entries and a deathbed film. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. In april 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detetctive agency. Artist page for sophie calle born 1953 the french artist asked 107 women to analyse the letter according to their professional interest.
Sophie calle purloined lucian freud, portrait of francis bacon 199820. Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. Sophie calle asked writer and filmmaker paul auster to invent a fictive character which i would attempt to resemble9 and served as the model for the character maria in austers novel leviathan 1992. She is the daughter of robert calle, a renowned french oncologist, and monique sindler, a book critic and press attache. Sophie calle was born on october 9, 1953, in paris, france. They perched rigidly in the quiet whitecube gallery, a table between them and the performance artist. In rachel, monique, sophie calle eulogizes her mother the. Sophie calle the shadow in april 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detetctive agency. Sophie calle could be thought of as the first artistinresidence at the gardner. Sophie calle, the french conceptual artist, spent last weekend in brooklyns famed greenwood cemetery helping visitors take their secrets to the grave. The only inscriptions are words that describe family connections. New yorkthe paula cooper gallery is pleased to present exquisite pain, an exhibition by acclaimed french artist sophie calle. Buy and sell signed multiples and original paintings at fair prices on llery. In greenwood cemetery, sophie calle invites you to bury your secrets.
Sophie calle exquisite pain count down 69 2000 available. Sophie calle will take your secrets to the grave artsy. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. Fifty postcards featuring sophie calles bestknown works. 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. Available for sale from paula cooper gallery, sophie calle, exquisite pain.
No sex last night is an autobiographical account of a road trip across america made by french and american artists sophie. Sophie calle and greg shephard paula cooper gallery. An art gallery in new york city founded in 1968 featuring minimalist and conceptual works by artists such as carl andre, tauba auerbach, jennifer bartlett, bernd and hilla becher, celeste boursiermougenot, cecily brown, sophie calle, beatrice caracciolo, sarah charlesworth, bruce conner, mark di suvero, sam durant, matias faldbakken, jatovia. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. New yorkthe paula cooper gallery is pleased to present sophie calle. The scenario at greenwood, with grass and graves at our feet, was. Most but not all artists in the nga database have works online tate gallery, london, uk akron art museum, ohio new.
Paris, france, 1953 uses the mediums of photography, video, film, books, text, and performance to pursue her sociological and autobiographical investigations. Of all of calles work, i think exquisite pain might be my favorite. Sophie calle and the integrity of loss the new yorker. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. Sophie calle, 16 books lawrence rinder, 1 book louise lawler, 1 book yvealain bois, 1 book kathleen merrill, 1 book olivier rolin, 1 book elisabeth strowick, 1 book knut ebeling, 1 book christine karallus, 1 book ivealan bois, 1 book trudy wilner stack, 1 book christine macel, 1 book courtenay finn, 1 book almaelisa kittner, 1 book stefanie. Sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. Sophie calle, from take care of yourself, french intelligence officer, louise 2007. We have been asked to look at several artists work for the preliminary exercise in section 1. Part conceptual art, part character study, part confession, part essay, sophie calles the address book is, above all, a prism through which desire and the elusory, persona and identity, the private and the public, knowledge and the unknown are refracted in luminous and provocative ways. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. Published in 1984, sophie calle s lhotel is a perfect book. Working with photography, video, and text, she is known for conceptual projects, often controversial, that explore all facets of human life, during which the frontiers of art and life, reality and fiction, private and public constantly and playfully shift. Calles art and life have always been difficult to distinguish one from the other.
New yorkpaula cooper gallery is pleased to present absence, a special exhibition of works by sophie calle created between 2006 and. Screenings will take place march 22nd through the 25th at anthology film archives, 32 second avenue. Sophie calle has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even a detective. The exhibition will be on view from may 7 through june 25, 2005, at 534 west 21st street. Via paula cooper gallery french conceptual artist sophie calle has invited guests into her temporary bedroom in the eiffel tower, worked as a maid to photograph strangers travel possessions, collaborated on a fictional character with writer paul auster, and been followed by a private detective at. In rachel, monique, sophie calle eulogizes her mother. Featuring a stamped pink metallic cover, multiple paper changes, special boundin booklets.
I read it tonight in one sittingits always impossible to tear oneself away from calles work, i find, so riveting is her writing and presentationand then spent maybe an hour going through it again, rereading certain parts and thinking about and through what calle presents. Hailed as frances answer to tracey enim by the telegraph, sophie calle, is a conceptual artist, widely known for her 1982 piece the hotel a collection of photos depicting the personal belongings of hotel guests, which aimed to make assumptions about their identities and. Paula cooper gallery, ny published 2019 cover softcover isbn 9780960821099 page count 60. The fertile mind of sophie calle the new york times. 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. It is a highly personal and moving book, while at the same time offering thoughts on death that all of us can relate to. The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are embossed so as to evoke the texture of certain works by sophie calle. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. 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. This exhibition will be on view at 534 west 21st street, from 24 february to 24 march, 2001. And indeed, on pages 65 to 74 of his book, he uses a number of episodes from my life to create. The great french conceptual artist reveals how she persevered.