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SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE TESSA PERUTZ Open Studio Artist-in-residence Wednesday 23 February, from 2 – 6 pm
Tessa Perutz, Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 2022 Fondation CAB is pleased to invite you to the open studio of Tessa Perutz (b. 1988, Chicago, USA), our 2nd artist-in-residence in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The studio will be open by appointment on Wednesday 23 February from 2 to 6 pm. Book your visit: Tessa Perutz’s artworks function as psychological landscapes, touring the fields and valleys of the earth as well as the inner mind. Her works are a testimony to spontaneous exploration: pinpointed with anecdotes, hasty jottings and existential ponderings, Perutz’ oeuvre is shaped by processes of conceptualization and intuition, organically intertwining & informing one another. A recent shift has been made into exploring the body itself as a landscape, depicting human curvature in mirroring the earth’s natural peaks and valleys. But instead of the female figure, so often depicted in the history of art making by male artists, the gaze is shifted to the male form. This is a female-forward contribution to realigning male-driven historical trajectories.
CURRENT EXHIBITION IN SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Perspective on the Collection Open by appointment till end of March Lightness of Being, Perspective on the collection, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 2021, Photography Antoine Lippens In Saint-Paul-de-Vence, some twenty artworks from the collection Fondation CAB is presented, with a display co-curated by Hubert Bonnet and Joost Declercq. For this first interpretation of the collection, a conscious choice is made to select artworks that open up a reflection on the positioning of the artist. The artist as a person, the artist in his relationship to time and space, as well as his position within the prevailing economic, social and cultural context. It is the attitude and thought of the artist that are put forward. The artist unveils his vulnerability through his reflections on the very meaning of art. The exhibited artworks only acquire meaning when placed in relation with the architecture, the space and the viewer. The materiality briefly disappears and the artist’s engagement is translated by philosophical formulations about the very essence of things.
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