The galerie Catherine Putman presents for the first time an exhibition of Carmen Perrin's drawings.

Carmen Perrin displays some large drawings of the series « Tracés tournés » initiated in 2008. These drawings are created on a vast round table that turns like a wheel. The artist is able to control the sense and the speed of the table thanks to a pedal.

The drawings size - 116 x 116 cm - represents the distance that the artist standing can reach with her arm to the center of the table while drawing. Carmen Perrin often used the scale of her own body in order to create her sculptures and then her drawings.

She draws by pressing and sometimes striking the paper using graphite or colored pencils while the table is turning. As the creation of the drawing is going on the paper tends to become thiner, then begin to warp and eventually acquire a third dimension. Carmen Perrin explains that she creates a drawing the same way a ceramist creates a pottery.

Creating a drawing consists in the inscription of the movement and speed of the table as well as the artist's own speed and body movements. The round table is a mechanic constraint with which she plays, and that interacts with the paper material. Carmen Perrin's pieces are the result of a tension between the mechanic work and the hand work.

The galerie will also display some pieces of the series « forages » : round punched holes in Paris Match magazines of the 60's and 70's.