Chupas
by Sabine Lalande
- Printed in France
* UNE RÉDUCTION DE 15% s'applique aux communes de moins de 5 000 habitants.Contactez-nous pour bénéficier de cette remise.
* POUR TOUTES LES COMMUNES, une réduction de 10% s'applique automatiquement à partir de 3 expositions commandées.
Exhibition available in several formats.
Chupas are statuettes 30 to 40 cm high. Sabine Lalande shapes them by hand, from stoneware or porcelain clay, using a process that requires thought and precision. Working with the clay, sometimes laden with organic and mineral matter, gradually reveals the bodies, allows for the creation of poses and the formation of heads.
Sabine Lalande extends this slow sculptural development by nourishing it with watercolor and Indian ink drawings, made on paper whose finesse contrasts with the raw materiality of the earth.
Before the first firing, Sabine Lalande sometimes drills holes in the dried clay and splashes the statuettes with kaolin milk. Then comes the glazing: gold paint, colors traditionally used to decorate porcelain dishes from China, Saxony, Sèvres, or England, milky glazes with acidulous colors that, during the second firing, ooze and melt like crystal sugar with a fruity and bitter taste: with their wavy hair, the Chupas are for Sabine Lalande ghostly metaphors of the famous eponymous lollipops.
With open hands and outstretched arms, the Chupas create closed, floating universes between them, reflections of our consumerist, pop, and naive world, somewhere between "fin de siècle" decadence and "kawaii" (cute, in Japanese) trends. The Chupas are sometimes presented on video screens, animated by regular, haunting movements.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
