The Museum That Never Existed
For fifty years he photographed and composited museums showing his work — walls, crowds, openings that never happened. One hundred and fifty-nine of the 1,087 works in this archive are flagged as composites. Six exhibitions were real. This building is the one that exists.
The Design
A catalogue raisonné.
Black on paper, red as printer's mark.
Plates, rules, marginalia.
Motion: print-like. Type does the work.
Black on paper, red as printer's mark.
Plates, rules, marginalia.
Motion: print-like. Type does the work.
1,087
Works
159
Composites (imagined)
6
Real exhibitions
500–1,000
Works that did not survive
For his grandchildren
Discover the Archive
- 1970s — Studio begins, early experiments
- 1990s — Guernica series takes shape (232 works)
- 2000s — Gallery installations emerge
- Composites — 159 imagined exhibitions, flagged
- Guernica Series — 232 works exploring museum concepts
- Register of Loss — 500–1,000 lost works