Carmen Perrin

Carmen Perrin (born January 9, 1953 in La Paz , Bolivia) is a Bolivian - Swiss sculptor and object artist who has lived in Switzerland since 1960. The sculptor works mainly in Geneva and France . She is known for processing organic and industrial materials into installations and intervening in architecture and urban planning.

life and work

oT by Carmen Perrin (1990) in the Austrian Sculpture Park

career

Perrin spent her childhood in Bolivia and came to Geneva in 1960, where she graduated from the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel (ESAV) in 1980 . She worked at the Dioptre exhibition and meeting place in Geneva and exhibited at the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris in 1982, at the Maison de la culture de Grenoble in 1984 and at the Musée Cantini in 1986 . In 1985 and 1987 she was awarded the Federal Art Scholarship. For ten years, until 1996, she had a studio in Marseille . In 1985, 1989 and 1999 she was awarded the Irène Reymond Foundation Prize. In 1985, 1986 and 1987 she was awarded the Geneva Lissignol scholarship. In 1988 she was awarded the La Placette Culture Prize. In 1989 she exhibited at the Neue Galerie Graz and the Fundació Joan Miró . In 1992 she was awarded the Geneva Cantonal Bank Prize and an honorary award for her sculpture at the International Cairo Biennale . In 1993 she was awarded the Landis + Gyr grant in Zug, which enabled her to spend two years in London .

Work description

After Perrin dealt with installation-like works, a sculptural creative phase began in 1984 . By contouring the volume, she drew forms in the space by placing the supporting structures that limit the void under tension. With the beginning of the 1990s she devoted herself more to wall works. Towards 2005 she created permeable sculptures from brick cross-sections and fish traps, in which rigid material becomes malleable, flexible and twisted.

Perrin has been active in public spaces since the late 1980s and participates in urban development projects in collaboration with architects . Works were created

with Georges Descombes : CH 91 . La voie suisse, itinéraire genevois (1991) in Brunnen SZ ,
in the garden of the Credit Suisse school in Zurich (1991),
with Herman Hertzberger for the administration building Centraal Beheer (1995),
with the architects Pizzera & Poletti for the courtyard of the Swiss Bank Corporation in Lausanne (1996),
with Daniel Herren at the Haute École d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Friborg (1996),
with Michel and Claire Corrajoud , Georges Descombes and ADR Architects in the Jardins d'Éole in Paris (2007),
Noir ductile , entrance to the historic hall of Genève-Cornavin train station (2014).

Works by her can be found in the Aargauer Kunsthaus , the Musée d'art et d'histoire Geneva , the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and the Musée d'art de Pully .

Works (selection)

title	year	technology	SIK-ISEA inventory number
Sans titre	1989	support en caoutchouc	13046930
Sans titre	1991	Rubber membrane, wood, plywood	10003988
Ruberbands	2013	élastiques nouées	13908176
Entrer dehors, sortir dedans, 30 portes Bruno Taut, Berlin	2012	caoutchouc mousse, perforations et assemblages	13907914
Ensemble flou	2013	bois, plastique et couleur acrylique	13908064
Climaxes	2013	perforation sur plastique, polystyrene et couleur acrylique	13908095
Turning point	2013	fourres de disques 33 tours perforées	13908194