Purple Magazine
— The Future Issue #37 S/S 2022

mount analogue by philippe parreno

ART  interview by BORIS BERGMANN the french artist philippe parreno is a long-time fan of rené daumal’s mount analogue. he transposed each word of the unfinished novel into a blinking light code, attributing a color to each word and sending the story into the sky from atop the medici column in paris. BORIS BERGMANN — How did you come across the novel Mount Analogue? PHILIPPE PARRENO — It was at the Beaux Arts in Grenoble. It began, not with an unknown text, as in Mount Analogue, but with the voice of a friend: “Have you read Daumal? You should.” I started with A Night of Serious Drinking, then Mount Analogue. BORIS BERGMANN — That inspired you to make a work, Mount Analogue [Mont Analogue in French], which was presented at the Air de Paris gallery in 2001. PHILIPPE PARRENO — Even before I made an artwork, Mount Analogue taught me a…

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