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LAURENT PERNOT: LIFETIME
at Château Malromé
From 11 June 2022 until 1 January 2023, Château Malromé in southwestern France will present a series of new works by Laurent Pernot in an exhibition titled Lifetime. The special exhibition invites you to meditate on the fleetingness of time with artworks that speak to the poetry of impermanence. Inspired by the 19th century French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s artistic quest and his brief life, who knew how to exalt the evanescence of bodies and celebrate the present of its time with a great sensitivity, Laurent Pernot summons multiple temporalities to explore these links that unite the present moment, the time of nature and that, halfway, of our human life.
Laurent Pernot (b. 1980) lives and works in Paris. He develops a polymorphic practice that explores the human condition, through the experience of time, language and nature. Meditative and poetic, discreet or sometimes monumental, his artworks pursue the notion of impermanence as well as the paradoxes of memory, often drawn upon history, philosophy, literature or poetry.
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Installation View
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec in the living room of the Château de Malromé, 1887
Collection of Musée Toulouse-Lautrec Albi
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The device of fragmentation, as it pertains to our experience of time and memory, is at play in the four meter long sculpture Forever – a ubiquitously employed word in the declaration of affections – which appears to be in a premature state of erosion. The crumbling, yet still legible letters, evoke the persistence of love against the ravages of time. They also bring to mind the 18th century architectural fad for ‘sham ruins’, which appealed to the romantics’ fascination with the past and one’s own mortality.
Laurent pernot
Forever, 2021Steel, white concrete45 x 500 x 60 cm / Weight 200 kgEdition of 3 plus 1 AP -
Laurent Pernot
The Kiss, 2021Steel, concrete, patina
70 x 140 x 70 cm, 2 parts
Each 70 x 70 x 70 cm
Weight 200 kg
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Laurent Pernot
MOVE IN A STRAIGHT LINE IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING, AS LONG AS IT MOVES, MOVES IN A CYCLIC ORDER, 2015Installation of 1200 photographs and framing
Found photographs, partially or totally erased by the artist
Variable dimensions
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I often work on the basis of philosophical and historical research rooted in existential concerns and personal feelings, which I will then try to translate into a contemplative and poetic experience. Because poetry has no homeland, no language, no borders. Because there is no human without the ability to feel poetry.
— Laurent Pernot
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