POIRIER (Anne and Patrick). - Lot 232

POIRIER (Anne and Patrick). Le Voyageur endormi. [Paris]: Serendip, [2004]. - In-folio, 325 x 215 : (32 ff. first and last blank), 1 map, printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's slipcase. Very rare original edition, printed in an edition of only 75 copies on Moulin du Gué paper, edited by Patrick Mauriès. It includes 9 engravings, 2 original photographs, a large lithographed fold-out map and a compact disc, by artist couple Anne and Patrick POIRIER. Eight of the 9 engravings are initialled by the artists. "My first contact with the work of Anne and Patrick Poirier goes back to the 70s, and in particular to their exhibition "Domus aurea" at Beaubourg: an extraordinary cadastre of a burnt-out city, in a black light. We crossed paths from time to time, until I was able to propose a real collaboration. This book surely stands apart from their work. It is also without doubt the most intimate: it is the place where their generic work on memory is embodied in the most personal way, bringing together in a rhapsody of mourning the signs and traces of a loved one who is now only there in absence" (editor's note, presserendip.com). One of 55 numbered copies in Arabic numerals, signed by Anne and Patrick Poirier at the justification. A perfectly preserved copy.