Mainly a sculptor, Philippe Perrin\u2019s practice also extends to photography and drawing; his subject matters are taken from the urban suburbs \u2014 rap, boxing and gangster aesthetics \u2014, as well as from detective stories and police action movies. He is particularly well-known for his objects of gigantic proportions (mostly guns, but also pocket knives, razorblades, rosaries, rings and barbed-wire crowns), which lose their original purposes as their formal beauty is emphasised by Perrin\u2019s meticulous work. <\/p>\n\n
Razorblade extends Perrin\u2019s strategy to public sculpture, as this piece echoes some of Pop sculpture\u2019s aesthetic options in the 1960, in which trivial household objects are monumentalised through scale enlargement, in order to become oddly seductive icons. In this particular case, that transformation is stressed by the sculpture\u2019s prosaic location and position. Philippe Perrin\u2019s selection of subject matter, however, follows very particular criteria. The objects chosen by the artist usually include instruments connoted with violence and vandalism, as well as with religion, especially the notions of sacrifice, penitence, or any type of bodily or spiritual self-denial. Thus, Perrin urges us to \u201cwalk on the razor\u2019s edge\u201d and therefore face the most fundamental aspects of the human condition \u2014 violence, religion, war, suffering, and death, but also (and not altogether unrelated to the former), passion, pleasure and love. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3926,"template":"","categoria-da-obra":[93],"class_list":["post-3935","colecao","type-colecao","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-da-obra-09-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/colecao"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colecao\/3935\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-da-obra","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miec.cm-stirso.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-da-obra?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}