l'Astrophile ou le rêve circulaire - Laurent Millet

As an astrophile, the French artist Laurent Millet, has been fascinated by the works of the German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer and natural philosopher, Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630). Millet created the series 'Somnium' following his initial readings of Kepler's text of the same name, in whichKepler presents a detailed imaginative description of how the Earth might look when viewed from the Moon. Millet's studio quickly became a distant echo of that of the scientists of Kepler's time, mixed with influences from Graham Bell's notebooks on kites, certain self-portraits of the pioneers of photography, didactic or educational representations, and elements of communication (NASA archives, notably images from simulation laboratories in the 1950s).

The second part of the book contains the Astrophile series, which series, is a reinterpretation of Somnium conditioned by repeated listening to Novarina's Discours aux Animaux. Millet imagines himself in that space, in that language, in that solitude straddling the line between instruction manual and biblical narrative. He begins to draw funerary steles intended to appear in a desert landscape. He likens the constructions to his memories of certain theater models, machines, architectures, and Jai Singh's observatories. An open-air theater takes shape, combining the foreshore cleared by the power of the moon, haunted by these installations of wood and cardboard, of glued images that materialize a certain idea of measurement, astronomical observation, and lunar travel.

There are 10 Special Edition books housed in a luxurious box with a unique ambrotype. We have 5 copies available - see sample images.

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