The artist

Crédit photo : A. Boissaye

Born in 1975 in Toulouse (France)

Born in Toulouse in 1975, Lionel Sabatté graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2003. He currently lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière (Paris, New York, Tokyo, Koerich, Lyon, Geneva, Saint-Etienne, Panéry).

Working across painting, drawing and sculpture, Lionel Sabatté strives to create a continuous dialogue between all his works. His work revolves around the living world and the transformation of matter over time. For several years now, the artist has been collecting materials that bear the imprint of past experiences: dust, ash, coal, dead skin, tree stumps, and more. These elements are combined in unexpected ways, resulting in works that carry both delicacy and a “disturbing strangeness”. Lionel Sabbaté brings to life to a hybrid bestiary where creatures from the abyssal depths coexist with small birds from oxidized islands, bears, wolves, emus, owls and unicorns… His research into the mineral and the animal worlds gives rise to poetic, sensitive and unsettling creation that contribute to a global reflection on our condition and the place we occupy in our environment.

His work has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions in France and internationally. It is part of several institutional collections such as the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, the CNAP – Centre National des Arts Plastiques and the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, China. Lionel Sabatté has received several artistic awards, including the Yishu 8 Prize in Beijing in 2011, the Del Duca Foundation Painting Prize in 2019, the Prix des Amis de la Maison Rouge, and the Drawing Now Prize in 2017.

Learn more :
https://lionelsabatte.org