▷ Dans la savane / On the savannah by Sophie Verger, 2024 | Bronze Sculpture for Sale Handmade

New creation of 2024

Exclusively available upon order at Art Yi gallery in Brussels

French artist, Foundry in Belgium and in France

A book of Sophie Verger is offered

We have a new edition under finition now in foundry, check with gallery for timing

A matriarch walks through the savannah, leading her two baby elephants, one enthusiastic, the other a little lazy. It’s just one of the many touching scenes we see in Africa, in this case “embodied” in bronze!

Sophie Verger is a fairy who knows how to transform an emotion into an animal, a sensation, a felling in a recollected memory. She also suggests to us with a lot of humor a lovable identification with the animal model and beyond this observation the fact that in all her work, the child alone has its place with her, spontaneously capable of including the existence of the animal in her own fundamental values.

Sophie Verger combines anthropomorphic beings with human characters, and she mixes the human and the animal world in surprising ways. Through these mutations, her universe becomes moving, unstable, something is falling apart and uncertainty is twisting in it like a rift.

An absurd world, a human world, a world of humor. An universe of strange beings where man and beast were sometimes merges A world that nobody really believes in, but that must continue to pursue its existence. Condemned to exist. By echoing the complexity of human relationships, by remaining alien to received ideas, the world of Sophie Verger has lost its point of reference.

Sophie Verger plays with the pure reason of the look and lies the opposition of her interpretation.

Beyond anthropomorphism there is also, often, the notion of games. With animal representations worthy of Pompon but going beyond a simple realistic look, Sophie Verger sculpts poems, whole tales in one piece…