Guillaume pilet biography book

Guillaume Pilet was born in in Switzerland, where he currently lives and works. From to , Pilet's practice focused on a peculiar project entitled Learning from Aping , consisting in a series of exhibitions, performances, videos — as well as an archive and book collection— exclusively dedicated to apes. After and until , Guillaume Pilet developped a new body of works under the title La Mesure Harmonique , mostly composed of ambitous performances.

This led him to conceive The Dramaticon , an experimental pop opera inspired by his own childhood memories. As a curator, he organized many projects as a freelancer or in collectives, notably as a co-director of Forde in Geneva from to He is a founding member of Tunnel Tunnel , independant art space in Lausanne, since If painting is often in the centre of the process, conceptually and practically, what is displayed to the viewers is taking many forms.

In his works, he skillfully juggles between high and low, art and do-it-yourself, and, in so doing, incessantly blurs the boundaries between the genres.

The artist chose to recount his life as a children's story, flicking through fleeting memories, dramatic events, and brief anecdotes.

Naive forms and motifs, simple materials and techniques such as wood, ceramic, batik or sponge painting, and everyday objects are intermixed with references and figures from art history and the sciences. He energetically blends intuition and careful analysis, aesthetics of bad taste and distinguished chic. Sabine Rusterholz Petko.

Jamie Sutcliffe. Further informations:. Full exhibitions list. Art in America. Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar.