On Thursday, January 28, 2021, PIASA will present in its first auction of (very) Contemporary Art, more than 77 works of art by different sculptors, painters and visual artists of the current art scene. On this occasion, two inks on paper by Claire Tabouret (born in 1981) will be presented for sale.
Claire Tabouret, born in 1981, French artist living in Los Angeles for several years, graduated from the École des Beaux Arts de Paris in 2006. Since then, she has pursued a prolific career, deploying in her painting, drawing and sculpture work a figurative approach in which the relationship to identity is the central subject.
The two works offered in this sale are inks on rice paper, self-portraits made in 2013, among the first of a series that triggered a practice that has since become ritual for the artis
It was during her creative residency Yushi 8 in Beijing, in 2012, discovering the words of the Japanese novelist Yoko Tawada, "It is said that the human body is eighty percent water, so it is hardly surprising that another face appears every morning in the mirror" that Claire Tabouret began this series of self-portraits, questioning the notion of identity and the relationship to oneself over time.
Claire Tabouret (Born 1981)
self-portrait 26.05.2013, 2013
Estimate: 12 000 / 18 000 €
"The self-portrait has become a workshop ritual, I would find it hard to do without it, it was a starting point for the work. It's a face to face, I start from my reflection in the mirror, which has a strong relationship with painting. For me, it's like confronting oneself every day with one's choices, one's will or one's determination. (...) My painting is also a research on my own trajectory, my identity, my wanderings, my doubts (...) Every day I try to find a fragment of myself. »1
This work on self-portraits was notably exhibited at the contemporary drawing fair Drawing Now, Paris 2013 by the Isabelle Gounod Gallery, as well as in the group exhibition The Object of Silence, La Graineterie, Houilles, 2014. The exhibition Lock down portraits at the Perrotin Gallery, Tokyo, gathered this summer, a set of intimate self-portrait paintings of the artist realized in the fatality of the first confinement. This series questions even more the importance for the artist, as for each of us, of the relationship to self-knowledge through the discovery of the other.
Claire Tabouret (Born 1981)
Self-portrait 14.01.2013, 2013
Estimate: 12 000 / 18 000 €
1Quote from an interview of the artist with Julie Crenn, Pantin, August 2013, as part of the exhibition The Object of Silence, La Graineterie, Houilles, 25 January-1 March.
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