Sélection Kourtrajmé
CLÉMENT PERRIN, Sans titreYear 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Dimensions 38 x 27 cm
Edition 5
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Clément Perin’s art practice is rooted in graffiti and interventions in urban environments, but he has also developed performances and installations. The images, gestures and even physical acts of creating these works can be seen as a form of protest or rebellion. His art is often anonymous or authored under a pseudonym, but has become widely recognised and celebrated in Paris, especially amongst the younger generation.
Perrin was struck by the sense of adventure and excitement at Château La Coste, a sensation akin to his own practice yet in an entirely different environment. One figure important to both Perrin and Château La Coste is that of the French artist Louise Bourgeois. Perrin has always admired Bourgeois and he found inspiration in the defiant, strong spirit of her work. At Château La Coste, her Crouching Spider sits on the surface of the water outside the Art Centre at the entrance to the estate. Its contorted form and the freedom with which a spider climbs heights and spins webs reflects in some ways that of a street artist finding his way around the city.
Perrin’s work is both a self-portrait and an homage to Louise Bourgeois. Referencing the industrial metals seen in the works of Richard Serra, Conrad Shawcross and Sean Scully at Château La Coste, he chose a vertical oxidised steel surface as a backdrop. Perrin has superimposed an image of himself climbing this surface. Each print has then been personalised with a drawing of a spider, an explicit parallel with the Bourgeois’ work.
Artists Sélection Kourtrajmé
Name of the work Sans Titre
Year 2020
Medium Print on Arches paper
Edition 5
Dimensions 38 x 27 cm
Signed Yes
Numbered Yes
Certificate of authenticity No
Artwork
“ Having responded to the work of Louise Bourgeois for many years, I wanted to make the most of the chance to see it at Chateau La Coste to pay homage to her. Just like her, my imagination is haunted by monsters such as spiders. For Louise Bourgeois, the spider brought her back to her mother, seeing both figures as “intelligent, tidy, patient, useful, reasonable, and indispensable.” There is an architectural dimension to a spider's body, as if supported by eight pillars, arching upwards to join the torso. In choosing it as a subject as this kind of false mural, I wanted to juxtapose the architecture of the spider with the dream-like vision of the artist. “
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