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Frank Perrin


Biography

Frank Perrin, a French artist, has been exploring the notion of post-capitalism for more than two decades, compiling in the process a compendium of our contemporary obsessions. From Joggers to Yachts via Défilés (Fashion Shows), Perrin's Postcapitalism project is a metaphysical tracking shot that pans across the foundational ideas of our time.


The Blind test series, heralds a new phase in his research, representingnot only a culmination but also a real turning point in his work. His images of subversion, reversed as negatives, printed directly on cardboard sheets, perforated and mounted on mirrored surfaces, produce in us a sense of release that is radical and freeing. His images are still a retort to the period of austerity that encircles us, reflecting back to us in mirror Braille all the desire and repressiveness of revolt in its raw state. Around the central idea of blind revolutions, the artist questions both the subversion of vision and the vision of subversion.    

The Blind test series positions itself politically within a tradition of romanticism and a poetics of emancipation. Negative and dark images, punctuated with holes and mirrors, each new image contributing to the formation of a visual encyclopaedia of a vision and a liberating desire. 

Perrin's work has been exhibited in more than sixty exhibitions at home and abroad, including the Daelim Museum (Seoul), Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie (Toulouse), Centre Pompidou Metz and Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt). His works can be found in prestigious public and private collections in Europe, United States and Asia.  


Selected works

Hope, Frank Perrin
Paix, Frank Perrin
Amour, Frank Perrin
Délivrance, Frank Perrin
Fight, Frank Perrin
Pray, Frank Perrin


Museum exhibitions

NO NAME, Paris, France

NO NAME, Paris, France

NO NAME, Paris, France

NO NAME, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

22Visconti, Paris, France

Frank Perrin -

Nobody is a Stranger, NO NAME, Paris, France, 2024

Frank Perrin -

Nobody is a Stranger, NO NAME, Paris, France, 2024

Frank Perrin -

Blindtest Codex, 22Visconti, Paris, France, 2024

Frank Perrin -

Blindtest Codex, 22Visconti, Paris, France, 2024

Frank Perrin -

Blindtest Codex, 22Visconti, Paris, France, 2024

Frank Perrin -

Blindtest Codex, 22Visconti, Paris, France, 2024


Videos

EXHIBITION

Frank Perrin, "Pray, Amore, Combat", Michel Rein, Paris, 2022


Press


Publications

Catalogue raisonné

Catalogue raisonné

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Blindtest

Blindtest

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