Nose to Nose by Mai-Thu Perret

2015

Mai-Thu Perret

Facts

Material

Glazed ceramics

Size

37 x 48.5 x 5 cm

Description

Mai-Thu Perret's ceramic reliefs deploy a wide variety of motifs spanning from the geometrically abstract vocabulary of high modernism – thin lines, minimalist shapes – via simple, yet highly charged forms like eggs, to the openly figurative, a chain for example.

Like much of Perret's work, the ceramics challenge the distinction between high and low, fine and applied arts. "My initial reason for working with ceramic", says Perret, "had a lot to do with the associations I felt it carried, the kind of hippie, arts-and-crafts aura that seems to go along with it. It was, like textiles, a 'feminine' material, unlike oil paint or metal or even film."

Location
Zurich, Swiss Re Next

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