16 MILLIONS DE SIGNES – FROM AND ABOUT BOOKS / Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne
「ジュネーヴ造形芸術大学(Haute École d'art et de design Genève / HEAD)」の教授でありキュレーター、研究者、作家のアレクサンドラ・ミダル(Alexandra Midal)と、グラフィック・デザイン理論家、研究者であり教鞭も執るティエリー・シャンコーニュ(Thierry Chancogne)による作品集。2025年6月から2026年2月にかけて、フランスの「ヴァル・ド・マルヌ現代美術館(MAC VAL / Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum)」で開催した展覧会に伴い刊行された。
Reflections by Alexandra Midal and Thierry Chancogne on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of MAC VAL, the museum has invited the duo Syndicat to explore the 104 publications it has produced over the past two decades.
The books are presented on a display platform that brings together all of the published texts—a total of 16,465,721 typographic characters.
Alongside a selection of works from the museum’s collection, enlarged pages from catalogs are exhibited so that the formats of the reproductions and the originals correspond.
The exhibition is accompanied by a reflection on the book as an object, with Alexandra Midal and Thierry Chancogne offering historical, semantic, technical, and sociological perspectives in this publication.
- Pages: 160 Size: 105 x 150 mm Softcover Colour, black and white