Sophie calle es una artista francesa nacida en 1953. In rachel, monique, sophie calle eulogizes her mother. This is a twopart framed work comprising photographs and text. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. 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. Sophie calle has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and. 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. 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 is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy.
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. The legendary work in which artist and provocateur sophie calle finds an address book on the street in paris. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. 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. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the map. In 1981, calle took a job as a chambermaid at a venice hotel and secretly photographed the rooms in the absence of the guests.
The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calle s oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. 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. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Suivez sophie calle et explorez sa bibliographie sur sa page dauteur sophie calle sur. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it to its anonymous owner. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. In the late 1970s, her career began when she photographed the. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. With blind, french conceptual artist sophie calle born 1953 revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. Taking stock of her entire oeuvre, this set of postcards functions as a beautiful portfolio of calles work, as well as a new investigation of it, in an appropriately nomadic format. When taking the photo out, we find a sign that reads cette porte doit etre.
Sophie calle french pavilion 52nd venice biennale 2007. Below it, three columns of italic text are diary entries describing findings in the hotel room between sunday 22 february 1981 and tuesday 24. In the early nineteeneighties, the french artist sophie calle, who is known. Last november, the french artist sophie calle was in london to receive the. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to proviede photographic evidence of my existence sophie calle. The images below show images of the chromatic diet. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Comme vous lavez vu, jallais mal tous ces derniers temps. Each work has its own system, a rule book to be followed, like a game.
Hardback, 424 pages with 4 cds and two small booklets, 5 illustrations 29. My all finds the artist experimenting with yet another mediumsthe postcard set. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Sophie calle, the chromatic diet 1998 research sophie calles mixture of artistic strategy with daily life is one of the conceptional leads in photography.
In april 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detetctive agency. True stories by sophie calle and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book. Mas tu vue, exhibition catalogue, centre georges pompidou, paris 2003, reproduced pp. 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. One of calles first projects to generate public controversy was address book 1983. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a breakup email she received from her. Sophie calle is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.
Rachel monique is a highly personal and moving book, intimate and universal in its expressions of mourning and memory. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. Taking on multiple roles detective, documentarian, behavioral scientist and diarist calle turns the interplay between life and art on its head. Actes sud 2007 215 x 305 mm 420 pages, livrets, 3 dvds, couverture rigide. With editorial assistance by robert violette for the englishlanguage edition published in 2007 by actes sud. Sophie calle was the recipient of the 2010 hasselblad award for photography and the 2017 icp infinity award.
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