Paola PIVI

They all look the same

solo show

August 26, 2017 - November 11, 2017

tokyo

Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku

artist info

821 people attended the opening.
6 746 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 55 days.
Daily average 123 visitors per day including opening, 110 per day excluding opening.

Perrotin Tokyo is proud to present a solo exhibition by Paola Pivi, coinciding with her participation in the Yokohama Triennale. This will be the Italian artist’s eighth solo show with the gallery, after Paris, Miami, and New York, and the second exhibition held at Perrotin Tokyo, inaugurated last June. The series of artworks Paola Pivi presents in Tokyo exemplifies her phantasmagorical and unbridled world, “as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table,” as Lautréamont would say. Here, polar bears and feathered wheels live in lighthearted harmony, almost floating in a space that looks out over the city and attracts the glances of passers-by. The work of Paola Pivi is undisputedly compelling, leaving no one indifferent. […]