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Laure Genillard is pleased to present its third solo show of works by Swiss artist Peter Wüthrich. Known for his poetic transformations of the ‘book’, Wüthrich takes the ‘book’ as readymade to create minimalist sculpture, photography, video and major architectural installations. Disassociated from their original purpose and systematically freed from their role as containers for language, their materials and fragile bindings – linen, cloth, velum, board, lettering, fonts and paper – are brought together by the artist to circumvent the hierarchies of language and become rich metaphors for the …