This work is from a series in which I aim to rework every one of the hundreds of pages in a first edition of Andre Malraux’s seminal book, ‘Le Musee...
This work is from a series in which I aim to rework every one of the hundreds of pages in a first edition of Andre Malraux’s seminal book, ‘Le Musee Imaginaire’. This book was published in 1952 and is also referred to as the ‘Museum without Walls’. The volume that I am working with – ‘Le Musee Imaginaire de la Sculpture Mondiale’ brings together imagery of art and antiquities from all over the world into one volume, divided them into sections historically and also geographically. To me, it is an idea that is somewhat prescient of the way in which we can now experience art all around the world via the internet. His imaginary museum became my own imaginary museum, and with each of the pages that I drew, painted on, or made collages with, I took an artifact with an established cultural reading and, whilst operating within its existing aesthetic, I made space for a new reading.