• Nada
Postcards and an engraved polished black granite tablet, kept in its original packaging, 2025, a tribute to Goya’s famous etching of the Disasters of War.
The work is shown at the exhibition Postcards and Mail Art, at the art space Immanence, Paris, in November-December 2025.
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Nada. Ello dirá. - Nothing. The event will tell. (or All that for nothing…)
The Disasters of War, pl. No. 69, Francisco de Goya, 1810-1815, Prado, Madrid -
Nada, postcards, 2025 -
Nada, epitaph plaque, 2025 -
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At the exhibition Postcards and Mail Art, Immanence, Paris, 2025 -
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The postcard editions Entre!, Point of View, Roma 2000 and Nada among many others on the wall at Immanence
• Everything must go
The famous slogan announcing clearance sales, “Everything must go” becomes, when engraved on black polished granite, a philosophical memento mori not just of any individual destiny, but also an epitaph of our hyper-consumerist way of life…
The work was part of the exhibition Uncommon Bases at the Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine, in 2025.
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Tout doit disparaître at the exhibition Uncommon Bases, Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2025
• Fatal Error
A computer screen capture with a “fatal error” message engraved on a black polished granite plaque: The unfathomable mystery of life and death finds its reflection in the code of computer programming.
Translation into computer code: Peter Hanappe
