26 January 2008 – 16 March 2008

Mai-Thu Perret - Land of Crystal

The Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is delighted to be presenting «Land of Crystal», the first major show of work by Geneva-based artist Mai-Thu Perret (*1976) to be mounted in German-speaking Switzerland. The Kunst Halle thereby confirms its status as an important arena for promising young Swiss artists.

Mai-Thu Perret’s work makes use of the formal vocabulary and practices of modernism. The artist addresses modernism not in the form direct or indirect quotations or references, but via fictional strategies. In addition, she makes free and sometimes ironic use of feminist and post-feminist theory.

Perret is similarly wide-ranging in her choice of materials and media, which comprise painting, ceramics, textiles, sculptures, texts and video installations. Such variety does not entail a loss of conceptual or formal rigor. She parodies artistic ideals of the sublime, and in her appropriation procedures she aims for a craft aesthetic accompanied by a faintly esoteric aura. Everyday culture invades the parameters of classic high culture and distinctions between the two become blurred.

Address

Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
Davidstrasse 40
9000 St.Gallen
phone +41 71 222 10 14
http://www.k9000.ch

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Friday 2 p.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 12 p.m.- 5 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Kunsthalle provides a space for experimentation, a laboratory of the Now.

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