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…