Preformance Transfiguration Olivier de Sagazan live mask
August 15, 2012 1 Comment
TRANSfiGURATion from salquebre emilie on Vimeo.
TRansfiguration, performance de Olivier de Sagazan
10.10.09, demeure du chaos
Artist Olivier de Sagazan creates a hybrid practice integrating paintings, photography, sculpture, and performance. His series Transfiguration began in 2001. De Sagazan builds layers of clay over his face and body transforming into an animal broken from the physical world. Unsettling work transfiguring malevolence into a maniacal vulnerable canvas. The artist states: “I am interested in seeing to what degree people think its normal, or even trite, to be alive.” Olivier de Sagazan has exhibited widely in France and Europe,Canada, Brésil Corée in art galleries, museums, and film festivals. With an cult following online, and rave reviews about his expressive and inimitable style, it is no wonder de Sagazan’s remarkable “body art” work’s featured in the non-verbal film Samsara, the Sequel to Baraka, directed by Ron Fricke. This ARtist creates art which assaults. Its not cheap art, wall art. It doesn’t come packaged as in art kits. Its online art but not in a collection. Bathroom art, store art, art which the matches the drapes this is not.
I feel quite disturbed by this, yet I couldn’t take my eyes off this intriguing artistic portrayal of the what most people may depict as an inhumane depiction of what alienates our existence from the horrors of abnormalities. Woah…..