Lionel Sabatté
BIO
Lionel Sabatté (Toulouse, France) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Using painting, drawing, sculpture and photography in turn, Lionel Sabatté deploys a multifaceted imagination often evoking nature, but also phenomena linked to the manifestations of life and its fragility. His work can range from a sensitive figuration to the edges of a telluric abstraction based on research into sometimes unusual, surprising. Nature, as well as the transformations of matter due to the passage of time, are at the heart of his work. Elements such as dust, rust, natural pigments, dead skin, ash, coal, among others, are combined in his pieces, giving life to a plural, poetic and disturbing universe in which dissimilar figures are mixed. With his research on minerals and animals he participates in a way in a global debate, provoking deep reflections on our condition and the place we occupy in our environment.
Throughout his career, he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. These include: Pollens clandestins at the Château de Chambord; Éclosion at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole; Fragments at the Nouvel Institut-Franco Chinois.
His work is part of important collections such as: Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France; FRAC Réunion, Saint-Leu, Reunion Island; Aquarium de Paris, France; La Maison Rouge – Fon- dation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France; ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany; CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China; Yishu 8, Beijing, China; Unesco / Mauritian State.
Lionel Sabatté has received several artistic prizes such as the Yishu 8 Prize in Beijing (2011), the Drawing Now Prize (2017), the Prix des Amis de la Maison Rouge (2017), the Painting Prize of the Fondation Del Luca (Académie de France) (2019) and the Luxembourg Art Prize (2020).
*Thanks to the Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery: https://www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/en/home/
