Paul Paillet	1	artist's edition
	1	solo show

Artist's edition

2020

Paul Paillet
BRUME BOURGEON BRISE SOLEIL

Paul Paillet, BRUME BOURGEON BRISE SOLEIL, brochure, 12 pages, published in the Before publication collection, which gathers the pre-publications – single booklets from 4 to 24 pages, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, offset, black/white, stapled binding, 250 copies – of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before their final publication in L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2020.

This publication was inspired by the novel Les Météores by Michel Tournier and by the song, Coimbra (1930) by José Galhardo, whose French version, April in Portugal (1947) was written by Jacques Larue and the English version April in Portugal (1947) by Jimmy Kennedy.

CHF 15.-

 

Solo show

2020

Paul Paillet
fascination for fire

Exhibition from September 18 till December 12, 2020
Opening Thursday September 17, 2020, 2 PM – 8 PM

Paul Paillet’s solo exhibition at the Centre d’édition contemporaine was intended to open in March 2020, but was postponed due to lockdown until September 2020. For this exhibition, Paul Paillet has developed a proposal drawing on numerous references that insect and overlap, creating an ensemble of several pieces: sculptures and a mural work in porcelain, a newspaper, a radio and a publication. Each of these elements contains various cultural and personal indices that construct a kind of staged presentation. The theme of fascination for fire is partly autobiographical, linked to a reflection on a return to the artist’s adolescence, his adventures and darker moments in his past, which result in semantic shifts, from the private sphere to more critical and committed societal and political implications. (more…)