GALERIE XII is pleased to welcome French photographer, Sacha Goldberger’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. After extraordinary success in Europe, we are thrilled to bring the opportunity to discover his artwork. The exhibition will present his two most recents series : Extra Not So Terrestre and I want to believe shot in LA in 2020.
Sacha Goldberger
Exhibition Dates: June 4 - September 3, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm (50’s themed party! Dressing up is encouraged.)
Extra Not So Terrestre
A series of 26 photographs. Loosely inspired by films such as War of the Worlds and Mars Attacks, Goldberger’s photographs tell the story of an Alien invasion… Men are turned into cacti, and there are only a few women left. UFOs are very strange and look more like colanders than high-tech spaceships. Roswell walks by a diner near a California desert, and he seems to be having a good time. Extra not so Terrestre is also a love story talking about difference.
I Want To Believe
A series of 23 b&w photographs. Loneliness after the end of a world. Lost on a planet where there is no sea, it is the drought. Goldberger invites us to find a way to escape… a way to leave, to move, to slide. For that b&w eye-catching body of work, he uses multiple visual references – to Western and anticipation movies, to the West Coast culture... And also refers to a binary vision of things, the internal conflict between good and evil. The waiting, always the waiting, with the surf and the board in trompe-l’œil. An analog series, printed on a vintage paper that is no longer produced today.
About the Artist
Sacha Goldberger is a French Photographer celebrated for his narrative photography series that embodies a cinematic quality. He started his career as a creative artist at CLM BBDO, one of the major advertising agencies of the time, and graduated from the Ecole de l’Image Gobelins in Paris. His work has been infl uenced by the concept of weaving cultures that oppose each other and of combining the incompatible. The desire to tell stories that challenge traditional categories has been his driving motivation and has propelled him to create projects worthy of fi lm productions. As for many contemporary photographers, Hopper has been a major infl uence. His images have been compared to that of Eugenio Recuenco, Erwin Olaf, Jeff Wall, or Gregory Crewdson for their shooting technique; but their subject matter is quite personal, their uniqueness is derived from offbeat references in time and space. He initially won notoriety after the release of his series featuring his grandmother Mamika shot as a popular superhero. His talent was further acknowledged and celebrated with his Super Flemish series, a “Renaissance” interpretation of popular comic characters. His work is strictly scripted, built, and engineered. He navigates through time with costumes and historical sets, creating visual stories that entice the imagination and challenge the realm of possibilities. He has published several books and has been exhibited in international Art Fairs and galleries. His series have been shown in monumental outdoors exhibitions in Paris and Delhi. He lives and works in Paris, France.