Philippe-Alain Michaud

American Suite

 

“[My philosophy] is based on

G.W. Leibniz, Letter to Queen

 

Zette: “Ocean, nothing but ocean!”

Jo: “No, over there! A

Zette: “America!”

Hergé, Les Aventures de Jo,

 

 

Landscape Paintings

1998: In a gas station

Like the edge of the

Jugnet and Clairet: “Grids, and

By returning to paintings on

In a comment on his

 

2000: The map paintings are

In a series of photographs

 

2005: Jugnet and Clairet move

A neon twilight composed of

 

Paris, 2006: Jugnet and Clairet

– Clouds of marble, cut

– Tiny watercolor suns based

– Sunsets. Starting with the

– Heavenly divides. Like the

Sculptures, paintings, neons, and drawings,

 

Screen Paintings

Tapes (a. Scratch, b. Snow,

New York, March 2000: Jugnet

For this Tapes series, Jugnet

Concentrating on the beginnings and

Lines isolated on the edge

Leibniz: “Every portion of matter

The phenomenon loses itself in

 

Switch

2002: Jugnet and Clairet travel

 

Flows, Glitches, Metablocks

2004: Jugnet and Clairet commission

 

Landscape Paintings on the one

 

2008: Jugnet and Clairet visit

– Flying saucers, some floating

– A series of portraits

 

Translated from the French by

 

1. Strabo, Geography, XV: 14.

2. Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian

3. Quoted in Charles-Arthur Boyer,

4. The proposed project is

5. Blaise de Vigenère, Annotation

6. Interview with Élisabeth Lebovici,

7. G.W. Leibniz, Monadology, trans.

8. On the making of

9. Aristotle, On the Heavens,

10. Apart from this series,

11. G. W. Leibniz, Letter

12. I am indebted to

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