SOFIE VANGOR - Galerie Nardone

SOFIE VANGOR

An indefatigable researcher, Sofie Vangor moves through life as she moves through art. With determination, dreaminess, questioning and curiosity.

With a degree in monumental painting and a Master's in printmaking, as a teacher of painting and printmaking, as an artist, as a mother and as a woman, Sofie Vangor could be confined to one role or another. Yet it is difficult to maintain these separations at all times, given the extent to which life and art intersect, feed on and merge in Sofie Vangor's work.

Indeed, her work accurately questions the boxes in which we are all imperceptibly enclosed. Boundaries become tenuous in the hands of the artist. To challenge them, to shake them, to bypass them and - perhaps above all - to get rid of them all the better. This play on the impermanence of borders has been present since the very beginnings of his work.

It would be futile to attempt to associate a single medium with the artist. Although painting was her first training, engraving quickly became a parallel discipline. Each discipline provides him with sensations that nourish his thoughts and actions.

The energetic, instinctive, almost savage gestures of painting are matched by the slower, more precise and concentrated gestures of engraving. Where one is an outlet, the other is more reflective. This particular relationship to gesturality undeniably leads the artist down the path of performance. The mediums blend together in expressive collages, and the works gradually emerge from the limited surface of paper or canvas to unfold and move in three-dimensional space.