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Jean-Max Albert’s Sculptures Bachelard, by Noelle Tay At times referred to as keyholes, other times as cameras, Jean-Max Albert’s Sculptures Bachelard are consistently alluded to as apertures that we look through, rather than at. Yet, despite being only knee-high, their bronze cast affirms their massiveness and permanence, their hewn edges inviting touch and interaction, their…

Space in Profile Les éditions de La Villette,Paris, 1993 The initial astonishment experienced by readers of this book will no doubt be prolonged by a tonic curiosity about its research entailing physical and corporal demonstrations of a mental exercise directed toward the place where « nothing will have taken place but the place »(Mallarmé). A public art…

Octobre 2018 Catalogue de l’exposition Sara Holt, Jean-Max Albert, Galerie Mercier & Associés, 2018 Catalogue PDF

Tuteurs Fabuleux Editions SPEED, Paris, 1978 If it is true that all things have both an internal and external existence, it is rare, nevertheless, to simultaneously perceive both the interior and exterior of an object. The mind may conceivably be able to contemplate all of the ensembles and all of the sides of an object,…

Nos mains sous la neige Théâtre, Editions La Comète, Paris, 1998. Costumes et décor Raymond Ribes Il y a confusion entre le secret de la vie elle-même et la manipulation – toute mécanique – des gènes. «Les généticiens ne travaillent pas sur du vivant, mais sur des molécules.», dit Jacques Testart à André Comte Sponville…

Thelonious Monk Architect Fleeting White Space Editions, New York, 1986 Historically, the establishment of an effective musical notation was originally the difficult exercise to find significant relationships between sound and the visual, to say, finding graphic equivalents to sounds. According to convened rules, any coding system, in theory, would do. Yet the relationship between music…

Mental Image and Representation Editions Mercier & Associés 2018 A very large and very hazy realm encompasses memory, imagination, dreams, and actually all possible representations of the world other than those presently before our eyes. Within this realm, the shapes taken by these representations are moving, elusive, extremely varied, and above all almost impossible to…

The NoN Library Louis Garand The number of texts published from Gutenberg until the year 2000 is considerable, but this quantity has already been surpassed since the year 2000 until the publication of the current catalog. Among this editorial mass, publications regarding the critique of nonexistent books remain extremely rare… This genre, which combines the…

Photon Propagation Fleeting White Space Editions, Paris 2017 To describe a photon, as we have seen, the physicist uses mathematics. What do mathematics do ? To describe with efficiency this photon propagation, mathematicians split the ‘real’ world into another world that permits understanding it. They attract and transpose the question ‘at home’, so to speak.…

Lithium Migrants Editions cheval d’attaque, paris, 1981 Dicussio N of results Jacques de Caullery eut une enfance heureuse qui s’épanouit dans la demeure familiale de son oncle Jean-Mohamed de Caullery, un mosaïste qui portait le plus grand intérêt à l’astronomie. Ce penchant apparaissait largement dans le choix de ses sujets : Cosmos area ; Galaxy…