Sibylle Peretti

Sibylle Peretti Biography

Sibylle Peretti is an artist who lives and works in New Orleans and Cologne Germany. She received her MFA in Sculpture and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne and a Master's in Glass Making and Design from the State School of Glass in Zwiesel, Germany.

She is the recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and most recently Sibylle Peretti was awarded the United States Artists Friends Fellowship.

Sibylle Peretti Description

Sibylle Peretti is a master of materials. Working in glass and porcelain, she creates a world at once magical and fiercely real. There is a poignant critical tension between the beauty of children and animals left to create their own defenses in a world of pestilence, natural disaster, and neglect.

Sibylle Peretti received her MFA in painting and sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, Germany. Her work is represented in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Canada; Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt, Germany; the American Glass Museum in Millville, NJ and the Glazenhuis in Lommel, Belgium as well as other public and private collections in the USA, Canada, and Europe. She has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Sibylle Peretti Statement

My work explores the lack of harmony between human beings and nature and our inability to become one with the natural world. My sculptures and paintings exemplify the tension between beauty and disease, intimacy and distance, innocence and knowledge. My wish is to create pieces that are sensitive, magic and touching, forcing us to ask questions about our identity and the way in which we experience ourselves in the world. My latest work is inspired by a growing fascination with Feral Children. Children, which were raised with little or no exposure to human beings. With their purity and immaculate innocence they may become closer to nature and function as a transmitter between humans and nature. They are full of wonder, mystery and the sensibility we have all lost. They have entered unknown worlds and may carry answers to the question what makes us human.