Loan of the works from the IAC Collection, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes:
On Kawara, 3 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, 10 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, 17 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, One Million Years-Past-For all Those who Have Lived and Died-Future-For the Last One, 1999
Franck Scurti, Le Calendrier, 1992
On Kawara, 3 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, 10 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, 17 mai 2000, 2000
On Kawara, One Million Years-Past-For all Those who Have Lived and Died-Future-For the Last One, 1999
Franck Scurti, Le Calendrier, 1992
La fabrique du Temps (the Time factory), 26/03/2025 to 03/11/2025, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
To explore this theme, the museum has drawn on its resources and various collections. In all, over a hundred items will be on display to the public, including a number of time-measuring tools: clocks, watches and calendars.
Visitors will be able to admire remarkable objects (a travel clock from the late 18th century, a mail coach watch from 1850) and historical photographs (including some 50 original prints from 1887 to the present day), marcophily and philately (date stamps, postmarks, envelopes, etc.) and other artifacts (including a collection of some 50 almanacs from the early 18th century to the present day).
Technology enthusiasts will also find something to their liking with the latest innovations in the sector, such as time-saving drone delivery!
All these treasures and curiosities will be placed in dialogue with contemporary works of art that address the measurement of time, thus providing a lively and renewed reading of heritage objects. Through an inspiring scenography, some fifty works of art in various formats - videos, photographs, installations, objects, sculptures... - will question our relationship with time, to the tireless rhythm of ticking clocks.
Contemporary art bridges the gap between the postal industry's historical heritage and current questions about time. This dialogue embodies a profound reflection on how the past shapes the present, and how art can reinterpret cultural heritages to meet the challenges of modernity. It also offers a poetic, philosophical and sometimes even humorous perspective on this theme.
These exceptional pieces come on loan from other museums (Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, Kröller-Müller Museum, Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne) and various regional contemporary art funds (Frac Grand Large, Normandie, Nouvelle Aquitaine...), as well as from various libraries (Observatoire de Paris, BHPT, INHA). Some works come from galleries (Xippas, Mennour, Anne Sarah Benichou, Catherine Issert...) or are on loan from the artists.
“La fabrique du Temps” is an exhibition that also awakens collective or personal memories associated with the postal world: almanacs, post office clocks, date stamps... so many markers of everyday life anchored in our memory. By placing them in dialogue with contemporary works of art, these familiar objects become poetic symbols, questioning our perception of time.
To explore this theme, the museum has drawn on its resources and various collections. In all, over a hundred items will be on display to the public, including a number of time-measuring tools: clocks, watches and calendars.
Visitors will be able to admire remarkable objects (a travel clock from the late 18th century, a mail coach watch from 1850) and historical photographs (including some 50 original prints from 1887 to the present day), marcophily and philately (date stamps, postmarks, envelopes, etc.) and other artifacts (including a collection of some 50 almanacs from the early 18th century to the present day).
Technology enthusiasts will also find something to their liking with the latest innovations in the sector, such as time-saving drone delivery!
All these treasures and curiosities will be placed in dialogue with contemporary works of art that address the measurement of time, thus providing a lively and renewed reading of heritage objects. Through an inspiring scenography, some fifty works of art in various formats - videos, photographs, installations, objects, sculptures... - will question our relationship with time, to the tireless rhythm of ticking clocks.
Contemporary art bridges the gap between the postal industry's historical heritage and current questions about time. This dialogue embodies a profound reflection on how the past shapes the present, and how art can reinterpret cultural heritages to meet the challenges of modernity. It also offers a poetic, philosophical and sometimes even humorous perspective on this theme.
These exceptional pieces come on loan from other museums (Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, Kröller-Müller Museum, Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne) and various regional contemporary art funds (Frac Grand Large, Normandie, Nouvelle Aquitaine...), as well as from various libraries (Observatoire de Paris, BHPT, INHA). Some works come from galleries (Xippas, Mennour, Anne Sarah Benichou, Catherine Issert...) or are on loan from the artists.
“La fabrique du Temps” is an exhibition that also awakens collective or personal memories associated with the postal world: almanacs, post office clocks, date stamps... so many markers of everyday life anchored in our memory. By placing them in dialogue with contemporary works of art, these familiar objects become poetic symbols, questioning our perception of time.
