Claude Rutault at Emmanuel Perrotin
The gallery Emmanuel Perrotin presents the work of Seventies prolific conceptual artist Claude Rutault. If Rutault is well known within the French art institution, Exposition-Suicide is an opportunity to showcase his work internationally to a wider public. Inventor of the concept of Definition- Methods, each work commands a precise instruction about its final presentation and the modalities of its acquisition. With this approach, Rutault has developed a body of over 300 definition methods. According to his instructions, the purchaser must comply to the updating of the work, thus directly playing a performative role on that of the final form of the work. In this frame, Christie’s has collaborated with Perrotin for the sale of Rutault’s works, thus becoming a mediator between the purchaser and the tyrannic artist. Exposition-Suicide by Claude Rutault runs until February 12 at Emmanuel Perrotin, 76 Rue de Turenne, Paris. Text and Photo Pierre-Alexandre Mateos