LOVELAND
May 1st - July 24th, 2021
RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST - SATURDAY, JUNE 5th 12-6 PM
SIBYLLE PERETTI
LOVELAND
Reception: Saturday, June 5th, 12-6 pm
May 1st - July 24th, 2021
SIBYLLE PERETTI
SIBYLLE PERETTI
"In my work I explore the lack of harmony between human beings, nature, and our inability of achieving a unity with the natural world. I strive to uncover hidden worlds in which harmony can exist and heal. Children, who represent vulnerability are placed in a diaphanous universe of potential solutions and revived through a new and intimate, perhaps mystical reconnection to nature."
- Sibylle Peretti
In LoveLand, her fourth solo exhibition at Callan Contemporary, Sibylle Peretti debuts a suite of glass and mixed-media wall panels and freestanding kiln-cast glass sculptures that invite viewers to contemplate nature in its purest state. These visionary works imagine a world in which animals roam through landscapes and dreamscapes that are mostly devoid of human presence. Although traces of civilization remain, animals reign uncontested in this utopian kingdom—at one with their environment, pristine, noble, free. “I wanted to celebrate the wild and untamed by creating refuges in places that are fragile and endangered,” she notes, “where animals transform abandoned human terrains into balanced habitats.”
She renders her enigmatic vignettes in kilnformed and cast glass, gouache, collage, reverse-engraved plexiglass, painting, drawing, and photography, the disparate elements integrated and densely layered in a time- and labor-intensive process, imparting material and thematic richness. With a virtuoso’s skill she incorporates opaline milk-glass, painstakingly slumped and silvered passages, and in one sculpture, the secretive, ancient medium of ruby-red glass. The visual seduction of translucence and chromatic shifts in changing light beckon viewers into ethereal symbolic narratives.
Born in northwest Germany and raised in Bavaria, Peretti trained as a glass designer at the State School for Glass-making in Zwiesel and earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne. Since moving to New Orleans in 1996 she has lived and worked in the Bywater neighborhood, creating artworks that are included in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Carnegie Museum of Art, Museum of American Glass, Hunter Museum of American Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Speed Art Museum and the Museum für Kunsthandwerk (Frankfurt, Germany), as well as important corporate and private collections around the world.The recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell foundations, she was the subject of a 2018 solo exhibition, Promise and Perception: The Enchanted Landscapes of Sibylle Peretti, at the Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA).
In the new exhibition, she explores the nuances of innocence and sanctuary through haunting depictions of coyotes, foxes, fauns, hawks, bobcats, and panthers at rest and in motion. Some are surrounded by pearls and crystals, motifs that signify preciousness and elevated station, while others stand in fields of sunflowers, reminders of the landscape’s temporal journey from seed to bloom to harvest. “My hope,” she concludes, “is that we can reconsider our fractured relationship to nature and our environment. I always hope for the possibility of resilience, renewal, redirection, and unity.”
by Richard Speer
Sibylle Peretti
Banks of Long River, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered paper appliqué
60h x 80w in
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Sibylle Peretti
Banks of Long River (detail) 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered paper appliqué
60h x 80w in
Sibylle Peretti
Backwater, 2020
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
34h x 42w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Queen, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
17h x 20w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Home Range, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted , silvered, paper aplique
5h x 63w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
Hase, 2021
kiln-formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Breathing, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved painted, silvered, paper applique
35h x 21w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Awakening, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved painted, silvered, paper applique
35h x 21w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Where the Rubies Grow I
kiln cast and blown glass, mirrored
22h x 12w x 12d in
Sibylle Peretti
Ginger, 2020
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
42h x 34w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
He is Nothing Much but Fur, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
17h x 20w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
My Peregrine II, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
My Peregrine I, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
Pearl Collector II, 2019
carved acrylic glass, painted, silver- and gold leaf application , laser print
16h x 12w in
Sibylle Peretti
Boy with Sunflowers, 2019
carved acrylic glass, painted ,silver- and gold leaf application, laser print
22h x 16w in
Sibylle Peretti
Backwater, 2020
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
34h x 42w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Banks of Long River, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered paper appliqué
60h x 80w in
Sibylle Peretti
Hase, 2021
kiln-formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Breathing, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved painted, silvered, paper applique
35h x 21w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Awakening, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved painted, silvered, paper applique
35h x 21w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Rex, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
17 x 20 x 1 in
Sibylle Peretti
My Peregrine II, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
Ginger, 2020
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
42h x 34w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
My Peregrine I, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
20h x 17w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
Home Range, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted , silvered, paper aplique
35h x 63w x 1.50d in
Sibylle Peretti
Pearl Collector II, 2019
carved acrylic glass, painted, silver- and gold leaf application , laser print
16h x 12w in
Sibylle Peretti
He is Nothing Much but Fur, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
17h x 20w x 1d in
Sibylle Peretti
Where the Rubies Grow I
kiln cast and blown glass, mirrored
22h x 12w x 12d in
Sibylle Peretti
Queen, 2021
kiln formed glass, engraved, painted, silvered, paper applique
17h x 20w x 1d in
"My work invites us to journey into an unknown, undefined place of possibility, mystery and beauty where we find moments of clarity and introspection and may find answers about our own identity and how we experience our selves in the world."