The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the. Sophie calles the address book, an excerpt the new yorker. Sophie calle is a contemporary french conceptual artist known for her explorations of personal relationships and chance events. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Published in 1984, sophie calles lhotel is a perfect book. Portrait au crayon, drawn art, wow art, art plastique, oeuvre dart, beautiful eyes. 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. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. The haunting story of sophie calles mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs she was called successively rachel, monique, szyndler, calle, pagliero, gonthier, sindler, reads the first lines of sophie calle. This commodity does not happen to be bronze or marble, however, but information, the elusive stuff that circulates constantly between consciousness, document and cyberspace. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Laurie anderson marries friend sophie calle artnet news. Sophie calle, the tie, for parkett 36 the parkett books. 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.
Her factual fictional narratives accompanied with photographs have a constant presence throughout her practice, redefining the notion of author and even of fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, calle copied the pages before returning it to its anonymous owner. Now, the address book, a key and controversial work in calles oeuvre, is being published for the first time in its entirety in english as a beautiful trade edition. Sophie calle is a french artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. 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 explores hotbutton issues such as voyeurism, intimacy, and identity by investigating and documenting on the lives of strangers. Calles work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the french literary movement of the 1960s known as oulipo. Amelia gentleman talks to sophie calle, frances most famous conceptual artist, about the upsides of misery, the pull of the bizarre and the joy of being in a paul auster novel. 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. Sophie calle in her home studio in the paris suburb of malakoff. I read a section, two or three entries in a sitting.
In this remarkable artists book, french conceptual artistprovocateur sophie calle. In the early nineteeneighties, the french artist sophie calle, who is known for projects that involve immersing herself in the lives of strangers or allowing strangers a view of her own life. 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. Filmed march 30, 2011, as part of ccas photography lecture series, in timken lecture hall on the san francisco campus of california college.
The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality. This exhibit will also feature works from calles autobiographies, and will open to the public at fraenkel gallerys fraenkellab 1632 market street for two months. Her playful lifeasart work doesnt stop with magazine photo shoots. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has. First published in french in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, true stories returns for the fifth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed french artist sophie calle, this time with four new tales. In les aveugles the blind, created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty. Now, the address book, a key and controversial work in calles oeuvre.
Fifty postcards featuring sophie calles bestknown works. Sophie calle has 50 books on goodreads with 8121 ratings. What are the main elements of sophie calles use of image. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Sophie calle was born into an intellectual and creative household in 1953 paris, where she experienced an unconventional childhood. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the. We use cookies to deliver our online services and to provide more personalized services to you. She then began contacting the peoplein essence, following him through the map of his family, friends, lovers, and acquaintances. Take care of yourself photographie calle, sophie isbn. Perhaps her most contentious work, address book 1983 was inspired by an address book. She has mounted solo shows at major museums around the world and represented france at the venice biennale in 2007. 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. Barthes, 1997 the oeuvre of sophie calle can be seen as a rejection of barthes death of the author, putting the author notion back at the centre of the artists method.
Perrotin contemporary art gallery founded in 1990 in paris by emmanuel perrotin, at the age of 21, perrotin is a contemporary art gallery located on 3 continents. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the. With blind, french conceptual artist sophie calle born 1953 revisits three earlier works constructed around the idea of blindness. Sophie calle born 9 october 1953 is a french writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Take care of yourself is a whip smart, elegant monument to the complicated matter that is romantic communication. I see his silhouette on the we meander from room to room. The address book, a key and controversial work in sophie calles oeuvre. I walk with jacques give him a kiss and continue my walk alone. Originally published in french as an artists book in 1980 and reissued in 2015 by siglio press in english, suite venitienne epitomizes sophie calles idiosyncratic, documentarystyle text and photography in an eloquent blend of fact and fiction. I first learned of sophie calle in gregoire boulliers short novel, the mystery guest and then tore through her short book, the address book. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as. 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. Book entries accumulate, so do the vivid impressions of its owner, pierre d. The work of conceptual artist sophie calle embraces multiple media.
In a juicy new twist on sophie calles practice of turning her private life into art, the artist invited 107 professional women, from a french intelligence. In suite venitienne, sophie calle s first artists bookand the crucible of her inimitable and provocative fusion of investigatory methods, fictional constructs, the plundering of real life and the artful composition of selfshe notates, in diaristic, timestamped entries, her surveillance of henri b. In 1981, calle took a job as a chambermaid at a venice hotel and secretly photographed the rooms in the absence of the guests. A key and controversial work in french artist sophie calles oeuvre, the address book lies at the epicentre of many layers of. See more ideas about sophie calle, address books and artistic installation.
She also carefully observes her own emotions as she searches for, finds and follows him. Artists laurie anderson and sophie calle reportedly got married in an impromptu ceremony in san francisco over the weekend. Over the course of her 38yearlong career, sophie calle has established herself as one of frances most celebrated conceptual artists. Now, the address book, a key and controversial work in calles oeuvre, is being published for the. 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. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individualsin essence, following him through the map. Sophie calle was the recipient of the 2010 hasselblad award for photography and the 2017 icp infinity award. Like a sculptor of a past century, sophie calle in her art manipulates and reconfigures a commodity central to the economy of her time. The fertile mind of sophie calle the new york times. Sophie calle born 1953 is an internationally renowned artist whose controversial works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaid. Having found a lost address book on the street in paris, artist sophie calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner.
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