Alexandre Perigot's Funkypipe at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève
On display at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève in Paris from October 22 to December 12, 2009, is Alexandre Perigot's installation titled Funkypipe. This exhibition includes three flowing steel sculptures alongside a video featuring a belly dancer, drawing inspiration from Lautréamont's well-known phrase about an umbrella and a sewing machine. The sculptures, which resemble shelves, incorporate a central pipe segmented into motorized parts, producing visual effects akin to dancers in motion. The video, titled Belly Dancer (to Martin Kippenberger), was created in 1997 by Richard Hoeck and Heimo Zobernig. A vast sunset panorama over an oil field, influenced by Azerbaijani postcards, acts as a backdrop, which Perigot refers to as a "landscape of desolation," highlighting the demise of oil and its geopolitical consequences.
Key facts
- Exhibition at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, October 22 – December 12, 2009
- Installation titled Funkypipe, edited in three copies
- Includes three steel sculptures with motorized pipes
- Video Belly Dancer (to Martin Kippenberger) by Richard Hoeck, shot in 1997
- Video features Heimo Zobernig and was made the year of Martin Kippenberger's death
- Backdrop is a large printed panorama of a sunset over oil fields in Azerbaijan
- Image based on souvenir postcards from Baku, Caspian Sea
- Perigot describes the work as 'archaeology of modern times'
Entities
Artists
- Alexandre Perigot
- André Breton
- Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont)
- Richard Hoeck
- Heimo Zobernig
- Martin Kippenberger
- Josef Koudelka
- Carole Boulbès
Institutions
- Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève
- Fondation Berardo
- Magnum Photos
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Lisbon
- Portugal
- Azerbaijan
- Baku
- Caspian Sea
- Russia
- United States
Sources
- artpress —