Like the poet, Pierre Petit applies a dreamlike prism distorting the materiality of details surrounding it, and this for places in Paris in Les Icônes, psychotropic drugs in Morphorail or porcelain tank tops in Les Anonymes. The visual artist’s systems oppose each other in order to create a flexible poetry, recomposed and stripped of its natural, physical, material functions.
Pierre Petit, Le Clown, 1999, sponges, plexiglas box, 55 x 29,5 x 14 cm.Pierre Petit, Les Icônes, 2002, watercolors, collage, colored pencils, pastel, 75 x 105 cm.Pierre Petit, Les Anonymes, 1994, vests in porcelain, metal, 58 x 58 x 26 cm.Pierre Petit, Désordre, 2006, graphite, watercolors, 27 x 33,5 cm. Series of 41 drawings.Pierre Petit, Jalousie, 1995, neon, aluminum chimney stack, 174 x 22 cm.Pierre Petit, Jalousie, 1995, neon, aluminum chimney stack, 174 x 22 cm.Pierre Petit, Au fond du couloir, 2015, iron structure for reinforced concrete, light, variable dimensions.Pierre PETIT, Tout feu tout flamme, 2022, neon, 135 x 70 cm.
