Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. Available for sale from perrotin, sophie calle, today my mother died 20, colour photograph, text, frames, 51. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Available for sale from perrotin, sophie calle, take care of yourself. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. In 1993, at the age of forty, put an end to this ritual. 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. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research daniel. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence sophie calle. 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 has filled the french pavilion of the venice biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Her work reflects that inevitable baudelaire phrase, poetry is for everyone. With blind, french conceptual artist sophie calle born 1953 revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. With such goals in mind, she utilized multimedia works and counts mostly on conceptual and.
This expanded edition of sophie calles 1994 classic features four new tales first published in french in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. 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. 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. 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. 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. He also writes in circles in the book, using the character writing as a way of both analying and revealing. The detective in april 1981, at my request, my mother wc.
In april 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detetctive agency. Fifty postcards featuring sophie calles bestknown works. If youre thinking about following me home, dontits been done. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. All siglio titles are distributed to the trade by artbookd. She then rang the numbers in the book to assemble a portrait of the owner, turning the results into a multimedia installation. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. In the late 1970s, her career began when she photographed the. 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. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book that calle.
Sophie calle was born on october 9, 1953 in paris, france. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Sophie calle today my mother died 20 available for sale artsy. Born in paris, calle traveled for seven years after completing her studies. Artist sophie calle recounts her serendipitous path to becoming an artist, beginning with a chance stay at a photographers home in bolinas, california, and an experimental visit to a cemetery with a camera. 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. She left paris after completing school to travel abroad. Feist 2007, video, screen, color print, frame 38 12 x 31 inches photo, 82 12. This community page is administrated by claire duchesne in agreement with the artist and galerie perrotin.
The images below show images of the chromatic diet. Sophie calle was the recipient of the 2010 hasselblad award for photography and the 2017 icp infinity award. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following. Her playful lifeasart work doesnt stop with magazine photo shoots. Sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. Sophie calle demonstrates a great social awareness. Sophie calles mixture of artistic strategy with daily life is one of the conceptional leads in photography. Sophie calle published the photographs within the diarylike report of her observations, in the book entitled ecrit sur limage. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. 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.
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. For six days calle consumed a diet of a single food colour. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book that calle found on the street, photographed, and sent back to its owner. Sophie calles art mixes image and text to provoke the kind of intense emotional response usually inspired by epic literature or film. 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. She then began contacting the peoplein essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. In 2010, sophie calle was the recipient of the hasselblad award for photography. She proceeds to call through the address book and ask each person to meet with her, explaining the address book but refusing to reveal the owners identity unless they meet with her in person.
In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from. O ne day, a journalist from le monde interviewed sophie calle. A notoriously controversial figure of the european scene and one of frances leading conceptual artists to date, sophie calle dedicated her career to the creative exploration of personal relationships, investigating both psychological and emotional terrains of all of us. Sophie calle has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even a. The fertile mind of sophie calle the new york times. Take care of yourself is a whip smart, elegant monument to the complicated matter that is romantic communication. Many of her works juxtapose writing and photography to. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. In the forthcoming months, several solo exhibitions of her work will be on view. She returned the book to its owner, but not before copying the contents. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. Sophie calle is a french photographer, installation author and a conceptual artist whose notorious and controversial reputation by.
Featuring a stamped pink metallic cover, multiple paper changes, special boundin. He sat down in her studio and asked her her date of birth. Sophie calle french pavilion 52nd venice biennale 2007. 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. Sophie calle found an address book on the street in paris. 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. Calles most recent cultural hit was the 2007 venice biennale piece take care of yourself, in which calle asked women to read a breakup email. Paris, france, 1953 uses the mediums of photography, video, film, books, text, and performance to pursue her sociological and autobiographical investigations. Ghosts reminds us again of this awareness in a beautifully simple yet challenging project. Interview with the artist sophie calle about her piece take care of yourself duration. While in california she developed an interest in photography and learned basic. Of sophie to boarding school when he came to visit my mother, would sit on expectantly at him. I read a section, two or three entries in a sitting.
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