Philippe Perrin

Born in La Tronche in 1964, lives in Paris. Artist-boxer-writer-adventurer, Philippe Perrin is particularly known for his spectacular large scale weapons: flick-knives, American punches, razorblades, revolvers : ''When an object or its image is made considerably larger, the primary message disappears leaving space to another message of identical form and different contents.'' The warmonger side is stumped, and Perrin’s Colts, Lugers, Brownings, UZI and other machines of conquest and destruction, oversized and immobile, appear deprived of all their murderous potentiality and of the ambivalent relationship between fascination and repulsion that men keep up with weapons, letting place to their peculiar beauty, emphasized by the quality of the works, meticulously conceived by the artist.