Photo Exhibition: Sacha Goldberger Exhibits His Crossed Portraits In Nice
Do you remember the Mamika series that photographer Sacha Goldberger dedicated to his grandmother? After this first series that revealed him in France, this photographer has multiplied projects where the art of portraiture is renewed with humor. In 2021, he has thus imagined Crossed Portraits which will be exhibited in early 2023 on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. In these portraits, personalities from various backgrounds embody great cultural figures, real... or fictional! Will you be able to recognize who is hiding under the features of Charlie or the Mona Lisa?
A photographer with an offbeat style
Already in 2012, we told you about the French photographer Sacha Goldberger on gralon.net on the occasion of the Super Mamika exhibition at Bercy Village... It's been more than ten years that this photographer reinvents the art of portraiture by making series of photos worthy of film productions.
After being revealed in France with Mamika (the series he dedicated to his nonagenarian grandmother), the photographer had fun mixing eras by using costumes and settings full of history for the Super Flemish series. In this series, he imagined portraits of superheroes in the manner of the great paintings of 16th-century Flemish art.
With his quirky and always humorous eye, this French artist has published several books of photographs and has exhibited in many cities from Paris to New Delhi via London, New York and Rio de Janeiro!
In 2021, he won the Ministry of Culture's 1 building, 1 work award with his Les Compagnons Renaissance project. Never short of ideas, he is preparing a new series on feminism through the prism... of Alfred Hitchcock's films!
Crossed portraits that will amuse you
Crossed Portraits is a series of photographs by Sacha Goldberger that was born from a zany idea: to transform personalities from diverse backgrounds (stars of cinema, song, theater or literature) into iconic figures of culture.
In this series, which will be exhibited on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice at the beginning of 2023, real or fictional, current or historical characters are embodied by personalities you know... Can you recognize them under their Princess Leia, Super Mario or Charlie Chaplin disguise?
The 38 photos that make up this series were taken in 2021 and form a gallery of often funny and sometimes moving portraits. Through these images, the artist wanted to pay homage to artistic diversity and the mix of cultures.
Who is who?
Spoiler alert ! If you don't feel like playing the guessing game and/or you want to know which personalities have been photographed in front of Sacha Goldberger's camera, here is the list of the photographed artists and the famous characters they embody:
- David Abiker : Lemmy Kilmister
- Kev Adams : Mona Lisa
- Eric Antoine : Gandalf
- Armelle : Sue Ellen Ewing
- Pénélope Bagieu : Regan in The Exorcist
- Bartabas : Don Quichotte
- Emmanuelle Bercot / Nemo : Elisabeth II & Prince Charles
- François Berléand : Victor Hugo
- Cali : The Joker
- Renaud Capuçon : Buster Keaton
- Flo Delavega : Che Guevara
- Alice Dufour : The Bride in Kill Bill
- Irène Frain : Princess Leia
- Guillaume Gallienne : Molière
- Alexandre Jardin : Dracula
- Marc Jolivet : Super Mario
- Patricia Kaas : Maleficent
- Reem Kherici : Dora Maar by Picasso
- Emy LTR : Leeloo in The 5th element
- Mathias Malzieu : Henri IV
-M- Matthieu Chedid : Charlie Chaplin
- Mathilda May : Colette
- Laëtitia Milot : Claudia Cardinale in Les Pétroleuses
- Pablo Mira : Robin Hood
- Kamel Ouali : Freddie Mercury
- Pierre Palmade : Charles de Gaulle
- Pierre Richard : The spermatozoon in Everything you always wanted to know...
- Jean-Paul Rouve : Rasputin
- Olivia Ruiz : Barbarella
- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt : Ludwig van Beethoven
- Joann Sfar : Bluebeard
- Claudia Tagbo : Pacman
- Guillaume de Tonquédec : JR Ewing
- Caroline Vigneaux : Wonder Woman
- Bernard Werber : Albert Einstein
- Zaz : Marlene Dietrich
Practical information
To discover Sacha Goldberger's Portraits croisés series, go to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.
A free, open-air photographic exhibition is being held from February 22 to March 22, 2023.
Come and have fun and rack your brains in front of these portraits as bluffing as they are delightful! Thanks to the images of this photographer, culture becomes much more accessible and literally comes down to the street...
