Pierre Leguillon

MUSICAL ERRATUM


A project by Pierre Leguillon for the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny

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The musical section of the Musée des Erreurs, Erratum musical (after a phrase by Marcel Duchamp), houses mainly printed objects of little value, such as postcards, posters, magazine pages, film stills and other ephemera.

The Erratum musical exhibition brings together works and artifacts borrowed from various collections, including the Musée des Erreurs in Brussels, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Musée du Son/Fondation Guex-Joris in Martigny.

Each room in this museum-exhibition represents a different typology of museum in Western culture: museum of painting, national museum, museum of arts and crafts, museum of folk arts and traditions, museum of anthropology, museum of design, menagerie, etc. In this way, the exhibition is presented as a free score, grouping together various cultural objects and exploring their modes of presentation.

By addressing the cultural and political stakes of the works, Erratum musical also questions our perceptions of art and music. This music, which has to do with "error" in its most positive sense, is produced by objects that are often not instruments (a lamp or a chair, for example), dog barking, frog croaking, etc.) - or even music that replays or even mishandles existing scores, including American martial music and the French national anthem, La Marseillaise.

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Pierre Leguillon

Born in 1969 in Nogent-sur-Marne (FR)

Lives and works in Brussels

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After training in visual arts at the University of Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne, he began his career as an editor and art critic. A protean artist, his work focuses on the production and reproduction of still and moving images, of which he owns a vast collection, now housed in the Musée des Erreurs, which he founded and installed in his Brussels apartment in 2013(The Museum of Mistakes, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, 2020).

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From 1994 to 2006, his practice focused primarily on the projection of sound slideshows. From 2007 onwards, he created the La Promesse de l'écraninstallation in Paris: a projection screen concealing a speakeasy - this retractable system has since become itinerant. More recently, his practice has focused on the production of artists' books, published mainly by Patrick Frey (Zurich), Triangle Books and Surface Utiles (Brussels). He was awarded the Bob Calle Artist Book Prize for Ads (Triangle Books), in 2021.

His work has been exhibited at the Louvre (Paris, 2009), Mamco (Geneva, 2010), Moderna Museet (Malmö, 2010), and more recently at Wiels (Brussels, 2015), the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris, 2019) and the Frye Museum (Seattle, 2019). He has taken part in Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, 2013), the Tirana (Albania, 2016) and Taipei (Taiwan, 2016) Biennales, and Phenomenon #5, Anafi (Greece, 2024).

His works are included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kadist Collection (Paris and San Francisco) and the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh).

He was laureate of the Villa Médicis in Rome in 2003. He has taught at HEAD-Geneva since 2010.