07   K I T T Y  S A B A T I E R : ARTISTS STATEMENT

 

Freelance graphic artist and calligrapher Kitty Sabatier was born in 1959. She lives in Toulouse where she trained at the Fine Art school and at Bernard Arin’s  criptorium. She opened her first studio with Michel Derre in 1986 and published  her maître, lettres de Rilke à Rodin (Alternatives) in 2002. She exhibits in France  and abroad.

 

Probing the body of the letter to its bony skeleton, Kitty Sabatier uses her immense talent to create spaces that vibrate with matt or velvety blacks and blank  landscapes crossed by a streak of ink. When she works on paper, here Moulin de Larroque and Moulin de Pombié, we see real palimpsests being created: the paper is written on, then washed, written on again and then washed again…the pigments give a powerful stroke as well as great depth of field.

 

Some of her works are called “Failles” and “Equilibres” and indeed they make us  dizzy as we are swept into a labyrinth of light and shade, thrown off balance by  dazzling whites surrounded by blocks of black or blue, and we get lost in unlikely charts of enigmatic signs.

 

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