Sarah Tritz
Sarah Tritz’s exhibitions must be considered a collections of fragments. These fragments are sculptures, bas-reliefs, paintings, drawings, collages, those made by putting things together. The graphic pieces on the walls work like the vanishing points of the exhibitions. They catch the eye of the visitor, and incite him to wander in the space of the room. Some act as windows opening to an elsewhere, and invite one to project oneself mentally towards other spaces. Joint styles and times, appropriating objects and miscellaneous, even opposite, references are characteristic of her work. Abstraction flirts with representation, drawing leads to sculpture, Italian Renaissance mixes with picking up objects, and American minimalism is next to primitive sculpture.
Tritz’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, Contemporary Art Center, Parc St Léger, Florent Tosin Gallery, Berlin, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, and Bétonsalon, Paris. Her works have also been presented in collective exhibitions in various places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, the FRAC Limousin, the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, La Maison Rouge in Paris, the Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow. She was the curator of two exhibitions in 2015—Bricologie, la souris et le …
Sarah Tritz’s exhibitions must be considered a collections of fragments. These fragments are sculptures, bas-reliefs, paintings, drawings, collages, those made by putting things together. The graphic pieces on the walls work like the vanishing points of the exhibitions. They catch the eye of the visitor, and incite him to wander in the space of the room. Some act as windows opening to an elsewhere, and invite one to project oneself mentally towards other spaces. Joint styles and times, appropriating objects and miscellaneous, even opposite, references are characteristic of her work. Abstraction flirts with representation, drawing leads to sculpture, Italian Renaissance mixes with picking up objects, and American minimalism is next to primitive sculpture.
Tritz’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, Contemporary Art Center, Parc St Léger, Florent Tosin Gallery, Berlin, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, and Bétonsalon, Paris. Her works have also been presented in collective exhibitions in various places such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, the FRAC Limousin, the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, La Maison Rouge in Paris, the Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow. She was the curator of two exhibitions in 2015—Bricologie, la souris et le perroquet, at Villa Arson in Nice, and Magnifiquement aluminium at Anne Barrault gallery, in Paris. A new monograph on Sarah Tritz, published by Editions Tombolo Presses, was out in January 2016.
Courtesy of Anne Barrault Gallery
