The Apartment

Present at MAMCO since the institution opened to the public, L'Appartement is a special space in the museum's route. It is the reconstruction of Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's apartment originally located at 26 rue Beaubourg in Paris. Occupied and developed by the latter from 1975 to 1991, This place of life was also a place of exchange and exhibition of works precisely chosen. Minimal and conceptual art had a place there essential not just through works but also as a form of life. Now an integral part of the MAMCO collection, L'Appartement offers, among others, pieces by Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Claude Rutault, Art & Language, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and André Cadere. This book is the detailed presentation through an essay by Patricia Falguières, an interview with Ghislain Mollet-Viéville and a study of each work by Thierry Davila. It also shows how collecting means inventing a singular type of art attendance.