Mai-Thu Perret
Mai-Thu Perret was born 1976 BirthGeneva, Switzerland.
Lives and works in HomeGeneva and New York.
Categories: Installation art Sculpture Objects
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"And every woman will be a walking synthesis of the universe"
Apocalypse Ballet (Pink Ring), 2006 and other works
The Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret (1976 Geneva) is a rapidly rising star in an art world that is fast taking stock of the twentieth century – the era of modernism. Perret’s early oeuvre is loosely based on a story she invented herself entitled ‘The Crystal Frontier’, and consists of ambitious projects such as an aluminium teapot-cum-exhibition space based on a Bauhaus design.
Known for her multidisciplinary, installation-based practice that integrates socialist subject matter, feminist politics, and classic modernist themes, Perret reanimates issues typically associated with the 1960s and 1970s within a contemporary framework. Her invented worlds synthesize a profusion of art-historical and cultural references, as well as a range of genres—including literature, design, craft, and performance—in order to explore new utopian possibilities and establish an imaginary place that exists outside of a linear conception of time…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. Conversations with Cézanne Once admired as a forerunner of modernists like Picasso and Braque, Cezanne is now appreciated on his own, and some art history mavens are even accepting that his achievement was unmatched by later generations. This is the long-awaited English version of a book that appeared in French in 1978 and has ever since been a cornerstone of Cezanne studies... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon Iranian Photography Now, Phaidon Art, Parkett Magazine. |
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