Born in 1967, Philippe Perrot grew up in the Paris suburbs. At the age of fifteen, he discovered post-war French literature and immersed himself in the writings of Antonin Artaud. He became fascinated by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Italian New Wave, and enrolled in film school. Through short videos, the artist explores the world of his family and the wounds of his childhood. From the 1990s onwards, he abandoned cinema to devote himself to painting as a self-taught artist, without abandoning the themes that are so dear to him and that permeate the whole of his work. He died in 2015 at the age of 48, following a long illness.
A discreet artist who went against the grain of the contemporary art market, Philippe Perrot produced very little, three to four paintings a year, his corpus being limited to 130 canvases and as many drawings over his entire career. Thanks to a generous donation, six works by the artist entered the museum’s collections in 2019. This presentation is complemented by several loans from private collections.