Card Catalog, Library of Assemblée nationale de France | 1996
Black and white film photographs laminated on aluminum
Catalog of the table of contents, Library of the National Assembly, Paris – 1996
Set composed of four elements measuring 38 x 318 cm
Filing
cabinets for index cards in the libraries of the French National Assembly and
the Vatican.
Human knowledge concentrated in rectangular or cuboid blocks captured in a frontal photographic image reduces them to the two dimensions of a highly structured image. In the age of the computer, these pieces are tinged with a certain old-fashioned charm. Here we come face to face with the emblematic object of conceptual art: potential creation concentrated and hoarded in a block of knowledge.
Along with the binders by Robert Morris, Stanley Brouwn, Art and Language, this series by Philippe Gronon, acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne, was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2023.
Human knowledge concentrated in rectangular or cuboid blocks captured in a frontal photographic image reduces them to the two dimensions of a highly structured image. In the age of the computer, these pieces are tinged with a certain old-fashioned charm. Here we come face to face with the emblematic object of conceptual art: potential creation concentrated and hoarded in a block of knowledge.
Along with the binders by Robert Morris, Stanley Brouwn, Art and Language, this series by Philippe Gronon, acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne, was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2023.
1. Catalog table of contents (A-Z) element n° 1, Library of the National Assembly Paris – 1996
38 x 71 cm
2. Catalog table of contents (A-Z) element n° 2, Library of the National Assembly Paris – 1996
38 x 71 cm
3. Catalog table of contents (A-Z) element n° 3, Library of the National Assembly Paris – 1996
38 x 88 cm
4. Catalog table of contents (A-Z) element n° 4, Library of the National Assembly Paris – 1996
38 x 88 cm
