8/10/2011
Mai-Thu Perret
Magasin, Grenoble
The Adding Machine. This exhibition will present all the aspects of this internationally renowned artist's work. It will present the various approaches of Mai-Thu Perret's multifaceted artistic practice by showing existing works and works specifically created for this show.
curated by Yves Aupetitallot
Following the exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus (Araau, Switzerland) this summer, MAGASIN will welcome this fall the solo exhibition of the Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret.
This exhibition will present all the aspects of this internationally renowned artist’s work. It will present the various approaches of Mai-Thu Perret’s multifaceted artistic practice by showing existing works and works specifically created for this show.
The multidisciplanary artist handles a wide range of artistic mediums from sculpture, painting and ceramics to video, sound, but also text. Influenced by the 20th century avantgarde movements and by oriental philosophies, the work of Mai-Thu Perret has numerous cultural, historical and literary references. The title of the exhibition The Adding Machine refers to the title of a collection of essays by the writer William
S. Burroughs* and its technique called ‟cut-up″ which consists in cutting up and reassembling text passages. Those different combinations highlight new symbols which allow a new interpretation of the work. In the same way, Mai-Thu Perret puts together in each of her exhibitions her pieces in a different way, in order to give us a different artistic reading, each time renewed and surprising.
Mai-Thu Perret was born in Geneva in 1976 where she lives and works. She has had several solo exhibitions and group shows in the United States and in Europe. She recently received the Zürich Art Prize as well as the Manor Art Award
Geneva.
Image: © Mai-Thu Perret
Little Planetary Harmony, 2006
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