Philippe Parreno

Un homme public 1994/95

DRAGON BALL
Opening of "Surface de reparations",
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France,
1995.

Imitating Jacques Chirac...

L'INAUGURATION
May 28th, 1994, inauguration of the new Musuem of Modern Art in Marseille, France.

Yves Lecoq adressing the public from the platform.
Imitating PPDA :
- Good evening, youÕre watching too much TV and not enough contemporary art....

Yves Lecoq leaves the platform and cuts the ribbon.
He then disappears. A few minutes later, Jacques Toubon, the minister of culture ascends the very same platform to inaugurate the museum.