Maison Mantin
En résidence au Musée de l'Illustration Jeunesse, j’ai exploré la Maison Mantin, maison bourgeoise du 19e siècle gardé en état. J’ai recensé les personnages qui habitent tapisseries et tableaux, les fleurs qui poussent sur ses assiettes ou les animaux nichés dans les boiseries. J’ai répertorié les formes, les couleurs et les matériaux, les typographies pour créer une série d’inventaires graphiques qui donne à voir la collection Mantin autrement.
Les étapes du protocole de création formulées sous forme de commandements traduisent à la fois le rangement progressif de la collection et mon processus de création à partir d’une base de donnée.
During my residency at the Musée de l'Illustration Jeunesse, I explored the Maison Mantin, a 19th-century bourgeois house preserved in its original state. I cataloged the characters inhabiting its tapestries and paintings, the flowers blooming on its plates, and the animals nestled in its woodwork. I documented shapes, colors, materials, and typographies to create a series of graphic inventories that offer a new perspective on the Mantin collection.
The steps of the creative process, formulated as commandments, reflect both the gradual organization of the collection and my own approach to creation based on a dataset.
1.
Faites vos gammes, copiez pour comprendre.
Master the basics, copy to comprehend.
Plates : Friezes & patterns
2.
Restez ou vous êtes et décrivez votre environnement.
Stay where you are and describe your environment.
Timezones, inventory of all clocks time found in the house
3.
Pensez, classez, domestiquez la masse.
Think, sort, tame the mass.
4.
La maison comme un monde recensez faune, flore, habitants.
The house as a world—list fauna, flora, and inhabitants.
Population census of each room, Men ( brown) women ( beige) Childs ( light brown) angels (blue) creatures (green)
Louise's bedroom
Louis's bedroom
5.
La maison comme une boîte, faites le vide et calculez ses proportions
The house as a box—clear it out and measure its proportions.
Materials used in the house's interior design.
Lounge
Louis's bedroom
6.
Marre des datas ? Faites des poèmes dada.
Tired of datas ? Write data poems.
Why enrage !
Fui quod es pris quod sum,
Instead of being all black, the dancing stone
have plenty of choices before being laid in the foundations,
Intermezzo, quadrilles, polkas, etc.
Fui quod es pris quod sum,
Instead of being all black, the dancing stone
have plenty of choices before being laid in the foundations,
Intermezzo, quadrilles, polkas, etc.
For the tourist in the almanac of destinies
if possible, live freely, or else, die.
Darling,
we no longer have pleasure
in sufficient measure.
You would be a thousand times gracious
to let me experience
this regrettable phenomenon
of some importance.
Thank you in advance.
Dear colleague,
Naturalist, Repairer,
Mender of faience and porcelain,
Collector of finances, Furniture maker,
merchant in Paris,
through you, all awakens,
and without you, all is dead.
Yours sincerely,
Louis Mantin
In the five corners of the world,
the whole universe yearns for whimsy.
It will pay for this all that you ask,
above five pence, refundable.
In the Ladies' Paradise
the jealous one slumbers.