# Works from the Collection

Claire Fontaine Please come back (K. Font) 2008
White fluorescent tubes, metal scaffolding, movement detector,
300 × 200 × 1400 cm
Inv. 2009.1167/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Claire Fontaine is both the name of a famous brand of school exercise book and a tribute to Marcel Duchamp’s Fontaine (…)
Agnès Varda La Mer immense et la Petite Mer immense [The Immense Sea and the Immense Little Sea] 2003
Colour digital print on polyester paper and canvas,
340 × 600 cm (together);
colour silver print with old frame, 34 × 60 cm;
sound
Inv. 2009.1170 (1 to 2)/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Agnès Varda is a photographer, film director and producer, and (…)
Anette Messager Les hommes que j’aime, les hommes que je n’aime pas (album collection n° 2, album collection n° 10)
[The Men I Love, The Men I Don’t Love (Collection-Album no. 2, Collection-Album no. 10)], 1971–1972
Photographs, glass, paper, various dimensions Inv. 2003.967/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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How many lives there are in Annette Messager’s life! In the early 1970s, at the heart of the ‘Paris scene’ (made up of Christian Boltanski, Sarkis, Paul-Armand (…)
Christian Boltanski Les regards 1993
Photographic reproductions on tracing paper, 80 × 120 cm (each one) Inv. 2009.1168/Acquired with the help of the FRAM Île-de-France.
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Christian Boltanski is interested in other people’s lives and histories, great and small alike. He pursues individual narratives that are (…)
Agnès Varda Le tombeau de Zgougou 2006 Installation audiovisuelle : vidéos, son, sable, plantes vertes, musique (Steve Reich, Winds and Brass [with Strings]), 2 plantes vertes, dimensions variables. Collection MAC/VAL, musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Acquis avec la participation du FRAM Île-de-France. Photo © DR.
Michel de Broin Black Whole Conference 2005 72 plastic and metal chairs fastening system 4 m in diameter Collection MAC/VAL, musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Acquis avec la participation du FRAM Île-de-France. Photo © Jacques Faujour.
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Since the mid-1990s, through sculpture, installation, video and (…)
Cyprien Gaillard Belief in the Age of Disbelief (L’arbre incliné, étape VI) [The Leaning Tree/stage VI], 2005 (Les quatre arbres/étape VII) [Four trees/stage VII], 2005 (Banja Luca), 2005 (Harlem), 2005 (Paysage aux trois tours) [Landscape with three towers], 2005 (Les deux chemins au ruisseau/étape VIII)[The Two Paths to the stream/stage (…)
Felice Varini Trois cercles désaxés [Three Unaligned Circles],
MAC/VAL 2005 2005 Acrylic, various dimensions Inv. 2005.1024/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Felice Varini works on the space and the issue of its perception based on the construction of viewpoints. His geometric works hold forth about architecture, on the scale of an interior, a (…)
Éric Hattan ‘Into the White’ carte blanche for Éric Hattan, 26 June–1 November 2009
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Éric Hattan’s creation, in place from 26 June to 1 November 2009, followed on from a previous proposal by Alain Bublex, which it was intended to echo. So the sculptural stands were re-used for the installation of Béton liquide (…)
François Morellet 56 lampes avec programmation aléatoire-poétique-géométrique
[56 Lights with Random-Poetic-Geometric Programming] 1966 Lights, electrical circuits, wood, 48 × 129 cm Inv. 2001.913/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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François Morellet is the artist of paradoxes. A man with a clearly serious life (he ran the family business in Cholet until 1975), he has been a life-long artist. The (…)
Gilles Barbier L’ivrogne [The Drunkard] 1999–2000
Wax model, assemblage of objects, 600 × 300 × 300 cm Inv. 2003.973/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Sculptures, photographs, large drawings, and installations – Gilles Barbier’s work is multiple and plentiful. A foe of logic and definitive truths, the (…)
Halida Boughriet Maux des mots )
[Word Aches] 2009
Photographic diptych, digital printing on brushed dibond, 120 × 70 cm (each one) Inv. 2010.1197 (1-2)
Notice Halida Boughriet is a young French artist who has already found her way, rooting her work in the state of the world, the authoritarian moments we call wars, politics and (…)
Jonathan Monk Horaires d’ouverture de la galerie [Gallery Hours] 2006
White neon on plexiglas, 80 × 160 cm Inv. 2007.1093/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Jonathan Monk was born in 1969, a crucial year for the declaration of the premises of Conceptual Art. It may be as well to be wary of any form of biographical determinism, but (…)
Jean-Luc Vilmouth The Name 2006
Dimmed electric light bulbs, electric cables,, 220 × 550 cm, Inv. 2006.1049 (2)/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Jean-Luc Vilmouth hallmarks the art scene with his special presence, highlighting the reflexes and dysfunction of the world, proposing new ways of (…)
Jacques Monory Hommage à Caspar David Friedrich n° 1
[Homage to Caspar David Friedrich no. 1] 1975
Oil on canvas, 162 × 260 cm Inv. 2006.1039/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Since the mid-1950s, Jacques Monory has been deconstructing the image. Closely linked in the 1960s and 1970s to what was then known as Figuration Narrative, he has since been tirelessly (…)
Hugues Reip White Spirit (Black Soul) 2009 – 2010
Shadow theatre consisting of 3 merry-go-rounds, 3 overhead projection screens and 30 white PVC silhouettes, 180 × 310 cm (each screen) Inv. 2010.1194
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Hugues Reip’s world is one of images – moving images and images in motion, still images and frozen images. He draws on (…)
Claude Lévêque Sans titre (AMERTUME) [Untitled (BITTERNESS)] 2005
Blue neon, 70 × 427 cm Inv. 2005.1028/Acquired with the help of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Steeped at the time in the punk movement, new wave music, alternative rock, the alternative avant-garde and counter-culture in general, Claude Lévêque was admitted to the École des (…)
Malachi Farrell La Gégène [Electric Shock Torture] 2007– 2010
(work in progress) Different materials, video, sound, various dimensions Inv. 2007.1075/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Malachi Farrell presents machines that are expressions of his political stand against all forms of physical and psychological (…)
Mark Brusse Privat Clinic 1985
Picture-relief, wood, textile, paint, glass, string, 240 × 200 × 60 cm Inv. 2008.1109/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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After studying at the Arhem School of Fine Arts, Mark Brusse left Holland in 1959 and went to Paris. His work (‘Clôtures’ [Enclosures] and (…)
Mona Hatoum Suspendu
[Suspended] 2009 – 2010
40 black swings with red laminate, metal chains, various dimensions Production MAC/VAL (residency 2009 – 2010) Inv. 2010.1196 (1-40)/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Mona Hatoum is one of the greatest artists around today. She is nomadic and the world is (…)
Pierre Buraglio Paysage 2 CV
[2 CV Landscape] 1993
Sheet metal, stained glass, 102 × 83 cm Inv. 2006.1037/Acquired with the help of the FRAM Île-de-France
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A very long time ago, and at a very early age, too, Pierre Buraglio was a brushless, canvasless painter. From 1968 to 1974, he elected to be a paintless painter, abandoning (…)
Pierre Ardouvin Éclair [Flash] 2007
Electrical system, plastic, metal, electric light bulbs, 253 × 223 × 10 cm Inv. 2009.1159
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In the first half of the 1990s, self-taught artist Pierre Ardouvin came by a space in Montreuil (an eastern suburb of Paris), which he ran with Véronique Boudier and Jean-François Guillon (…)
Philippe Cognée Container 1998
Charcoal and graphite held together with acrylic on Arches vellum paper, 80 × 120.5 cm Inv. 1999.785
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In the early 1990s, Philippe Cognée, an artist with an already marked fondness for materiality, developed an unusual pictorial technique using photographic composition and wax (…)
Noël Dolla My Mother II 2007
Acrylic and collages on flax canvas, card introducing a text by the artist, 340 × 210 cm Inv. 2009.1175
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For more than forty years Noël Dolla has been working on one of the most unusual painterly ventures imaginable, constantly exploring the fundamentals of painting itself, in (…)
Shilpa Gupta Untitled (Shadow 3) 2007
Interactive video, sound, 7’ Production MAC/VAL (residency 2007) Inv. 2008.1131
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Shilpa Gupta trained as a sculptor in Bombay (as the city was then called) between 1992 and 1997 and has been exhibiting regularly in India since 1996, and in various international shows since (…)
Véronique Joumard Sans titre [Untitled] 1993
9 glass globes, electric light bulbs and wire, adapters, various dimensions Inv. 2009.1173/Acquired with the aid of the FRAM Île-de-France
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Light is ontologically associated with the creation of the illusionist space of the painting. In the classical tradition, it is the most (…)