Philippe Perrin (artist)
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| Born | 10 August 1964 La Tronche, France |
| Occupation | Artist |
Philippe Perrin (born 10 August 1964) is a French contemporary sculptor and photographer who lives and works in Paris.[1] His works are in the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon.[2][3]
Philippe Perrin was born in 1964 in La Tronche.[1] Graduate of the École supérieure d'art de Grenoble,[4] his work has been the subject of many gallery and museum shows, including his retrospective at the Maison Européene de la Photographie,[5] at the Fondation Maeght,[6] as well being sold in public auction, including the work 'Couteau' sold by Sotheby's Paris in the sale 'The Secret Garden of Marianne and Pierre Nahon' in 2004.[5][7]
Work
From Perrin's work emerge symbols of violence taken from a variety of genres, such as crime fiction, cinema, or popular culture,.[8] He also plays with the question of scale of the object:[9][10] the gram of coke becomes a kilogram; a razor blade and a revolver are presented as very large.[11] For the French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud, "Perrin is a manipulator of signs, interpreting the relationship between reality and fiction through a question of scale, treating in the same manner the relation between a true biography and that of the figure of a celebrity."[12]
A work representative of Perrin's language of allegory-visual suggestion his "Skyline": seven ball cartridges of variable sizes respect the measures of the space where they are inserted, forming a front: first line of a fighting army or a skyscrapers seafront.[13]
He is mentioned on the first page of Chapter 22 of Michel Houellebecq's novel "The Elementary Particles" as a "mediocre artist" whose work decorates a "midrange hotel with a foul ambience."[14]
