Département des lunettes

Jean-Lucien Guillaume event : Département des lunettes
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ARGOS, Brussels, Belgium
2000

video, 5', non spoken, 1966-2000

A collector wanted to know how he could frame and protect his photogravures. The artist proposed to use two toilet seats. It was meant as a joke, but the idea got a life of its own. Guillaume even tested it and was surprised to see it worked. In 1996 he playfully started a new industrial partnership based on the idea of toilet seats. From the factory OLFA in the Ardennes to Meca of sanitary in Frankfurt, he presents some fragments of this work in progress.