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Born in the Congo and based in France, Olivier de Sagazan integrates photography, painting, sculpture and performance to create his mesmerising and existential work. Most famous for ‘Transfiguration’, a series in which he layers and moulds simple materials on his own skin and in his sculptures to create an incredibly levande and visceral experience for his audience. Evoking an incredible sense of violence and destruction without actually causing any damage or harm, Sagazan creates an unsettling but incredibly moving body of work that involves building up layers of clay and paint on his face and body before hacking, cutting, wiping and drenching it in order to achieve disfigurement and transformation. He uses jerking and contorted movement to exaggerate this sense of animalistic escapism. This destruction and reinvention of self reveals a primal desire to break away from the physical world with a childlike inventiveness. This sensitive and detailed yet bru
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OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN
EXHIBITIONS
2021
2020
- 22-23/01 “Hybridation” Théatre Lliure Barcelone
- 05/02 “Transfiguration” Festival Imaginale Mannheim Germany
- 04/03 “Ainsi sois Moi” (Première) DansFabrik Brest
- 14/03 – “Transfiguration” Weekend Singulier Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France cancelled
- 23-28 /03 Workshop Estonia cancelled
- 11/04 “Transfiguration” FestivalTrente/Trente Sainte France cancelled
- 11-12-13/06 “Ainsi sois Moi” Festival Brigittines Brussel cancelled
- 19/06 “Transfiguration” Figura Theater Festival Baden Swiss cancelled
- 21/06 “Transfiguration” festival Puppen Magdebourg Germany cancelled
- 25,26/06 “Transfiguration” FRAC Besançon France cancelled
- 4-11/ 07 Vive le Sujet Festival Avignon avec David Wahl cancelled
- 05/09 Performance festival “Kit Gavatovycha“ Lviv Ukraine. cancelled
- 1/10 to 15/11 exhibition Galerie Vitoux Paris
- 10/10 Transfiguration . FIMP’20 Porto
- 30 /10/ 2020, Première : Hands do not touch your precious Me. Teatro Co
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Olivier de Sagazan
French artist, painter, sculptor and performer
Olivier de Sagazan (born 1959 in Brazzaville, Congo[citation needed]) is a French artist, painter, sculptor and performer.[1] His most famous performance, "Transfiguration", was created in 1998, with more than 300 performances in 25 countries.[citation needed]
De Sagazan has collaborated with such artists as:
He is the father of singer-songwriter and musician Zaho de Sagazan.
Television
[edit]In Channel Zero: Candle Cove, de Sagazan portrays The Skin Taker.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]Performance art
References
[edit]External links
[edit]Media related to Olivier de Sagazan at Wikimedia Commons