The beautiful and dense catalogue for the Laurent Miller exhibition in Angers includes the series on display at the museum. The exception is a series absent from the Angers retrospective, the mysterious Tempestaires (2003-2008), which takes up the first few pages and is at once separate from and fully integrated with the world of the artist. Texts by Christine Besson, curator of the Anger exhibition, and Michel Poivert present Laurent Millet’s work and put it into context. Each series is introduced with quotations that alternate between literary excerpts—Borges, Machiavelli, Ponge, Pessoa, Lucretius—and critical texts by François Cheval, Jean-Paul Fargier and Robert Morris, further evidence of the variety of Millet’s influences. Three interviews with Arthur Kopel, conducted in 2008, 2011 and 2013 conclude the work. In this largely retrospective catalogue we see the artist’s taste for books, layout and compilation: “I often think of my photos like books. I’ve often dreamed of them being a part of a book, or achieving a sufficient volume to be their own.”
CATALOGUE
Laurent Millet
Les Enfantillages pittoresques
Filigranes
Format 170 x 240
354 pages
29 €
French / English
