▷ Lion and two cubs by Sophie Verger, 2023 | Bronze Sculpture for Sale Modern

New creation of 2023

Exclusively and directly available in Art Yi gallery in Brussels

Belgian artist, foundry in Belgium and France 

I created this sculpture to order (1/8) and then decided to release all the copies. The composition worked perfectly : a powerful lion with an abundant mane, tenderized by his two cubs. For the cubs, I chose to take up the theme of columns, stacks of animals, adapted to allow the boldest cub to rise to the father’s level! A rich tawny patina is an obvious choice.

• Sophie Verger sculpts poems, whole tales in one piece… All these stories that make us grow, this need to constantly rediscover the time when naivety was protecting us and instinct was our guide, but also all this spontaneous joy, this humor and this tenderness which she sculpts in the details of the gesture. Sophie Verger offers both the subject of our childhood and a primitive reminder to the child who remains in us, to return to that essential of life after which we run, all of us every day.

• Sophie Verger is a fairy who knows how to transform an emotion into an animal, a sensation, a feeling in a recollected memory. She combines these anthropomorphic being and mixes the human and the animal world in surprising ways.

• An absurd world, a human world, a world of humour. An univers of strange beings where man and beast were sometimes merges. A world that nobody really believes in, but that must continue to pursue its existence. Condemned to exist. By echoing the complexity of human relationships, by remaining alien to received ideas, the world of Sophie Verger has lost its point of reference.