Perrin & Perrin
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Perrin & Perrin
2024
Description
A creative duo working four-handed, Martine and Jacki Perrin have been exploring the unsuspected riches of glass for over forty years. A material of light, in which colors and plays of transparency and opacity blend, contrast or reveal themselves, glass becomes mineral sculptures with them. This first monograph reveals the many facets of their work, which explores all the possibilities offered by the material. Perrin & Perrin work like alchemists, fusing glass and modeling clay, as well as drawing and calligraphy. Punctuated by Chinese ink drawings, the inspirational spaces at the heart of their artistic approach, this book plunges us into the artists’ creative process.
Published by Atelier EXB.
Published by Atelier EXB.
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About the artists
Perrin & Perrin
Martine and Jacki Perrin sculpt together as one, forming a duo enriched by their individualities. For over a decade they have explored the potential of ceramics in parallel with their practice of Far Eastern calligraphy. Glass became their preferred medium and they developed the unique method of “Build-in-Glass” which allowed them to constantly explore new boundaries and to continuously develop and renew their work. They create dense and compact blocks in which they sculpt both monumental and more intimate pieces, in unique shapes and colours. One of the distinguishing features of their work is the constant play on transparency, porosity and above all, light. They find their inspiration in scriptural and musical constructions, as well as in the revelation of geological processes or phenomena. Their work, born out of the four elements, has an intrinsic coherence and a unique beauty.