Soundings explores the idea of measurement beneath the surface. Encased within a sardine tin, the painted fish appear suspended in a translucent resin that evokes depth, stillness, and slow observation. The composition suggests a quiet act of sounding—testing distance, reading currents, and navigating without spectacle.
Ortaire de Coupigny transforms an everyday container into a compact maritime space, where color, matter, and silence coexist.
Soundings – Original Sardine Can Artwork by Ortaire de Coupigny
Sculpture and painting : metal on aluminium / Wax / pigments / Resin.
Size : 8 cm x 10 cm x 3 cm. / 3.15 in × 3.94 in × 1.18 in.
One-of-a-kind artwork.
Signed by the artist.
2025
Ready to hang (See back picture).
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This artwork is currently exhibited at our physical gallery in Gujo Hachiman, Japan. It will be inspected, professionally packed, and shipped directly from the gallery to your address.
Ortaire de Coupigny is a French sculptor who transforms the humble, everyday sardine tin into a miniature theater of poetic movement. By suspending hand-painted elements and engravings in translucent resin, he captures "frozen moments" that play with light, depth, and humor. His work is a celebration of the small and the overlooked, reimagined as a contemplative object of art.
