Voyages en Arcadie N°122
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,300
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Les villes grouillantes,
1978
by Gilbert Sabatier
Painting : acrylic
73 x 60 x 2 cm 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
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Medium
Painting: acrylic
Dimensions cm • inch
73 x 60 x 2 cm 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
Grey ornate
Artwork dimensions including frame
76 x 63 x 3 cm 29.9 x 24.8 x 1.2 inch
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Artwork location: France
Work from the period “Parallel worlds" (1978-1982)
As I approached my forty years (I was born in 1941), a first assessment was imposed on me. Should I continue with a surrealist inspiration by continually modifying reality? Or should I return to interpretations closer to nature?
In addition, I was confronted with another observation: the concerns of artists of my generation differed from mine. I was interested in their research and achievements, which we called Contemporary Art. However, they did not seduce me to the point of breaking with my own imagination.
If man needs benchmarks to give direction to his life, I had personally, and for a long time, been impressed by three thoughts, respectively from Nietzche, Goethe and Aristotle. We have art so as not to die from the truth. Art allows the accomplishment of everything that, in reality, life denies to man. And art is the joy of free men. So I wasn't afraid of being criticized by moving physical reality into parallel universes. I was not running away from it but shifting it by giving it other contours, or limbos, dotted with dreamlike symbols.
Always at ease in my esoteric research, I exploited dreams so that they release creative energy in my characters and have a deep resonance with the viewer. Giving shape to these buried reminiscences helped, as a painter, to simultaneously become actor, stage and audience.
Embracing my century and its content, I nevertheless felt free to avoid everyday life by biasing them. Building other projections amounted to crossing the Rubicon towards the forbidden and the secrets of the Great Architect.
In order to highlight these parallel worlds, I exploited the elements of nature. I redrew them in assemblages that were often distorted or made difficult to identify. Vertical or horizontal architectures frequently made up my funds. Moving volumes, full of life, animated my paintings. They released a mineral universe which clumped together, exploded and restructured itself with the intention of translating the phobia of men. Through the breathing of their dreams, my characters projected themselves into other pathological utopias. Antidotes to the mediocrity of their condition, their dreams became sources of prolongation of their existence by moving their desires towards new horizons. Capable of mimicry, these beings were no longer main subjects but integral parts of nature. They could become stone, tree or animal. Having reached a balance with men, nature imbued itself with their language and echoed their presence.
Naturally skeptical but capable of enthusiasm, I had projected our human condition into parallel lives where everyone could have expected better worlds. However, while, through their traumatic dreams, my characters projected themselves into other realities, the result turned out to be bitter. Their attempts at freedom ended in failure. In designing an Arcadia of plenitude, they only encountered cold and inhuman spaces, like dead ends. Refusing, like Icarus, to comply with the established order, they had crossed levels from which they could not return. Far from the light, they were lost in wandering lands. They wanted to be but found only emptiness in their lives.
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Presentation
Gilbert Sabatier is a painter, engraver, sculptor. A creator since 1960, he is the author of 19 periods ranging from figurative to contemporary research. His total work represents two thousand paintings, 800 sculptures and 250 engravings.
His work is a hypnotizing and protean universe that questions the art of our time in all its forms, colors and movements. Explorer of the impossible, alchemist of matter and adventurer of art, Sabatier has never stopped creating paintings, engravings, screen prints and sculptures, sometimes monumental, sometimes light.
From his figurative early works to his research on weightlessness and suspended time, from his paintings between dreams and reality to his quest for abstraction, from his fascination with the laws of the universe to the invention of a new genre, synthesis of all his obsessions, the artist opens up like never before.
Throughout his life, he tried to artistically express the aspirations and doubts of human beings in the face of an undeciphered universe. For those who discover his work to immerse themselves in the heart and mind of a resolutely free artist.
PAINTER • ENGRAVER • SCULPTOR
PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST© NRCO
Born in 1941 in Haiphong (Vietnam), and painter since 1960, Gilbert Sabatier is the author of 2000 paintings, 800 sculptures, 250 engravings, illustrations – works present in various personal, group, national and international exhibitions . He is the creator of 19 periods ranging from classic to contemporary research.
His largest painting reaches 60 m² and his largest sculpture 18 meters long. As for his first important work, The Last Supper, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1963, it was acquired by the church of Vineuil (Loir et Cher).
He lives and works in Orléans as well as in Loir et Cher.
- 1996 • ACADEMICIAN, MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY INTERNATIONALE DEL VERBANO, ITALY.
- 1992 • VERMEILLE MEDAL FROM THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
- 1985 • GOLD MEDAL AT THE GRAND PRIX DES ARTISTES DE FRANCE & PRIZE OF THE ART LIVING PRESS & PRIZE OF THE SURREALIST SALON IN MORDELLES (ILLE ET VILAINE).
- 1982 • RUBENS GRAND PRIX FOR PAINTING, PARIS & FRANCE HUMANITARIAN GRAND PRIX, PARIS.
- 1973 • BELGO HISPANIC KNIGHT OF MERIT & BELGO-HISPANIC PRIZE, BRUSSELS.
- 1971 • NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PRIZE.
- 1968 • RECTOR'S PRIZE OF THE ACADEMY OF RENNES.
- 1964 • PARIS ENGRAVING PRIZE.
(Personal Exhibition = EP)
- 2019 • EP AUBERGE DE CHITENAY (41). HOTELS MERCURE & NOVOTEL ORLÉANS LA SOURCE (45)
- 2018 • EP ROOM LAURENTIA ORLÉANS (45). ORLEANS ANTIQUES FAIR (45)
- 2017 • EP HÔTEL MERCURE ORLÉANS (45). EP THE CHANCERY. ORLEANS (45)
- 2016 • EP DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL BLOIS (41). EP TOWN HALL OF CHAILLES (41) EP SAUMUR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. (49) EP LAURENTIA ROOM. ORLEANS (45)
- 2015 • EP HOTEL LE MONOARQUE BLOIS. EP IN MOLINEUF. (41) EXHIBITION IN INGRE. (45) EXHIBITION AT THE ANTIQUES FAIR ORLEANS (45)
- 2014 • EP GENERAL COUNCIL OF LOIR ET CHER BLOIS. EP MAISON D'IRÈNE MARDIÉ (LIRET)
- 2013 • EP UNIVERSITÉ ORLÉANS (SCHOOL POLYTECH) - EP BLOIS (LES VOÛTES DU PUITS-CHATEL)
- 2012 • INGRÉ (LIRET), ORLÉANAIS ARTISTS (ORLÉANS)
- 2011 • EP SOCIÉTÉ GENERALE À ORLÉANS, RETROSPECTIVE GILBERT SABATIER 1960-2011 COLLÉGIALE ST PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLÉANS.
- 2006 • EXHIBITION IN TOURS
- 2004 • EP IN ORLÉANS: GILBERT SABATIER “AN ARTIST IN THE CITY", 120 PLACES IN THE CITY AND AT THE MUSEUM.
- 2003 • SCULPTURE ENTITLED 1789 AMONG 50 SCULPTING ARTISTS AT CAMPO SANTO D'ORLÉANS - GUEST OF HONOR AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SAINT JEAN LE BLANC (LIRET), PRESENTATION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES.
- 2002 • EP AT GODF, PARIS - EP AT THE TOWN HALL OF CHÂTEAUROUX (INDRE) - EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): TOWN HALL, HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT, COLLEGE, KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLS, 32 MERCHANTS - EP SAINT JEAN DE LA RUELLE (LOIRET), ARTIS, AT THE HOUSE OF MUSIC AND DANCE.
- 2001 • EP AT CHÂTEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LOIRET) - EP AT MANOIR DU FAY IN CHITENAY (LOIR ET CHER).
- 1999 • EP IN MONTPELLIER (HERAULT) - EP IN LA FERTÉ SAINT AUBIN (LIRET).
- 1998 • RETROSPECTIVE “1960-1997: 37 YEARS OF CREATION" AT THE COLLEGIATE SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLÉANS.
- 1994 • EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER), SUP'TG - PERMANENT EP AT THE MERCURE HOTELS IN BLOIS (1994 AND 1995) AND ORLÉANS (FROM 1994 TO 2001).
- 1993 • EP IN TOURS (INDRE ET LOIRE) - EP IN VINEUIL (LOIR ET CHER), VIEUX CHÊNE – EP AT CHÂTEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LIRET) - EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION (PUBLIC PRIZE) IN CHOUZY SUR CISSE (LOIR ET CHER).
- 1992 • EP ORLÉANS POST OFFICE THE SOURCE: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - TF1 STUDIOS, SACRÉE SOIRÉE (PARIS) - EP IN BLOIS CONSEIL GENERAL DU LOIR ET CHER - EP 30 YEARS OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE FROM THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION, CRDP D'ORLÉANS - EP INAUGURATION OF THE TOWN HALL OF VINEUIL (LOIR ET CHER).
- 1991 • EP MOZART EXHIBITION, 14 SCULPTURES PRESENTED IN THE MAIN CITIES OF THE CENTER REGION - EP FIRST EXHIBITION AT THE FRANÇOIS I PYRAMID IN ROMORANTIN (LOIR ET CHER) - EP ORLÉANS EXHIBITION PARK: ENSEM - ORLÉANS EXPO FAIR: HIGH SCHOOL AND STUDENT FAIR - ANTIQUES FAIR AT THE ORLÉANS EXPO FAIR - EP SCULPTURES AT THE MONOD LYCÉE IN SAINT JEAN DE BRAYE (LIRET) - PAINTINGS AT THE RESTAURANTS DU COEUR AT THE ORLÉANS TOWN HALL - D'ORLÉANS EXHIBITION PARK 'ORLÉANS: FIST TECHNO PLUS - EP MAIN OFFICES OF THE ORLÉANS AND SOURCE POST, BOURGES (PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES, CHER), MONTARGIS (LIRET), ...
- 1990 • EP 30 CONTEMPORARY ART SCULPTURES UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ORLÉANS) - MONDIAL DE L'ART (CNIT, LA DÉFENSE), PARIS - EP REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTER, HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES SCHOOLS - EP LYCÉE POTHIER D'ORLÉANS: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - EP IN MARYLAND, BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): SCULPTURES ON BEETHOVEN.
- 1989 • EP IN ORLÉANS, REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTER REGION: SCULPTURES - EP AT SCANNER D'ORLÉANS - EP AT CAL D'ORLÉANS (PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, TERRACOTTA) - COLLEGIATE SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER (ORLÉANS) WITH ORLÉANAIS ARTISTS - SCULPTURES AT THE TOWN HALL OF ORLÉANS - EP IN ORLÉANS: MANY SCULPTURES EXHIBITED ON THE BICENTENARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - ARTO LIBRARY, CHÂTEAU DE BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER) - EP IN LAMOTTE-BEUVRON (LOIR ET CHER) - INGRÉ (LOIRET).
- 1988 • EP IN ORLÉANS, LOIRET.
- 1987 • EP IN ORLÉANS, LOIRET.
- 1986 • SALON OF ORLÉANAIS PAINTERS (MUSÉE D'ORLÉANS) - INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART (PARIS).
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