Sara (artist)


Sara is a French artist. She has been living in Paris since 1971. She received the Golden Apple at the 20th Biennial Illustrations Bratislava in 2005.

Art of Sara

Artistic style

It is difficult to distinguish the aesthetic themes from the scenaristic ones. For example, is the red color a theme or a medium ?
Most/ of her albums are filled with the city, the sea and with animals, but the recurrent themes are definitely solitude and encounter.
A monograph by Sara was published by gallery owner Marie-Thérèse Devèze. It shows about fifty themes from her corpus including painting, photography and torn paper.

Technics

Sara makes children books and individual pictures out of torn paper. “When the city tears up” is an exhibition of her torn-papered pictures about Paris, and has been shown many times since 1995.

Quotes

Interview with Claude Hubert-Ganiyare, from La Joie par les livres, April 1991.
Interview with Janine Kotwica in La Revue des Livres pour Enfants, April 2006