In order of appearance: an article by
Marjolaine Lévy on
Simon Starling, followed by a portrait of the artist standing in front of a white wall with a canoe over his head. A photograph by Annika von Hausswolff titled
The Blind Woman, 1998. A prisoner's cell, an interrogation room, corridors: four photos by Gregor Schneider from a series titled
Weisse Folter, 2005-2007. A picture of the earth, screen capture. Portraits of Samuel Boutruche and Benjamin Moreau (KOLKOZ), photographed during their residence at Casa de los Perros in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato State, Mexico, from September 2010 to February 2011. Light reflecting off the zinc-topped bar of Le Monsigny at 25 Rue Saint Augustin, Paris. The lyrics to
FEEED, a song by Jacques Julien and
Hugues Reip (the group SPLIT), and pictures of the concert they gave at the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris on March 3, 2011. A sculpture by
Laurent Grasso titled
Anechoic Wall, 2010. Photos of art historian
Arnauld Pierre taken during an aikido session in the dojo at Gymnase Caillaud in Paris, March 31, 2011. Two-dimensional depictions of works by Alexander Calder,
Untitled, circa 1933 and
Snow Flurry I (Rafale de neige), 1948, published in
Arnauld Pierre's book,
Calder. Mouvement et Réalité (Paris: Hazan, 2009). Soldiers patrolling the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, photographed on a day of heavy snowfall, December 8, 2010. A few pages on Julijonas Urbonas'
Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster designed to put an end to human life with elegant, humane euphoria. A tangle of electric wires, tires on a black tarp, and sheets of lead photographed by Morgane Tschiember during trips to China (2008) and the U.S. (2009). Three works by Morgane Tschiember titled
How Small a Thought it Takes to Fill a Whole Life, raster patterns, 2011, silkscreens on glass, 2 x 3 m (78 x 118 in). Perfectly aligned houses and manicured lawns: three photographs by James Casebere from a series titled
Landscape with Houses, shot from a huge maquette made by the artist based on suburban Duchess County, New York. A photo of Romain Torri's office at Galerie TORRI on Rue Saint-Claude in Paris, with works by Mathias Schweizer, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Florian Pugnaire,
Braco Dimitrijevic, and
Hamish Fulton. Two paintings by Vera Molnar, titled
Carré coupé en 5 rectangles, 2011. Visitors crowding in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, at 3 p.m. on May 30, 2011 in the Louvre Museum, Paris. A bronze nail in the wall of the Triple V gallery in Paris, being a work by
Olivier Babin titled
You Know, 2009. A view of Rue Beaubourg in Paris from the hole in a building made by
Gordon Matta-Clark, photographed in 1975, digital print on canvas on round stretcher (diam. 19 3⁄4 in), titled
Pour le Mur, signed
Pierre Denan and exhibited at the Galerie de Multiples in Paris on October 15, 2011, for the launch of AH AH AH. A thick cloud of smoke in a Flemish primitive painting, being a work by
Laurent Grasso titled
Studies into the Past, oil on oak panel, 2010. An image, repeated two times, of a woman's hand holding a blank screened iPhone, replicating the picture used by Wallace Berman (of a transistor radio ad) for his Verifax Collages, done in the 1960s; but here the iPhone is left blank, so that readers can personalize their copies of AH AH AH by sticking on the visuals of their choice. Splatters of white paint on the sidewalk opposite Galerie Jocelyn Wolff on Rue Julien Lacroix in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. Two portraits of
Pierre Denan (by Cécilia Jauniau) after photos taken by Peter Roehr for the invitation card to his exhibition
Roehr bei Seide, 1967, Frankfurt. A ceiling at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac on Rue Debelleyme in Paris. Elise Kleeb and Anissa Touati (Heidigalerie, Nantes) at Le Baron on the night of May 11, 2011, following a party at the Tokyo Art Club during which
Xavier Veilhan invited Melvil Poupaud to read texts by
Edouard Merino. One second from John Woo's film
Face/Off, 1997: dazzling lights photographed from a freeze frame. A painting by
Steven Parrino titled
Cosa, 1990, hanging in the office of Mark Alizart at the French Ministry of Culture. A black square on white ground created for AH AH AH by Alberto Herraíz, chef at the El Fogón restaurant in Paris. A photo of the medium Reynal Roussel, whom
Pierre Denan asked to contact the spirit of Marcel Duchamp. A thermoformed white plastic african mask by
Franck Scurti, titled
White Memory (Neger Plastik), 2006. A marble plaque inscribed YOUR NAME HERE, being a work titled
As Yet Untitled V, by
Jonathan Monk, 2010. A photo of
Michel Gauthier in a New York screening room in January 2010.
Xavier Veilhan's playlist AH AH AH, and a portrait of the artist spinning disks during the opening party for his solo show,
Free Fall, at the Espace Louis Vuitton (Le Baron, Tokyo, January 14, 2011). A photo of Piero Manzoni's
Socle du monde (1961), flipped 180°. An article by Hélène Meisel on Bojan Sarcevic's work,
Comme des chiens et des vagues, exhibited at Modern Art in London from October 13 to November 13, 2010, several pictures of which are reproduced here, notably those of young women posing with the metal sculptures. A list of books on
Jean-Max Colard's desk on Saturday, April 1, 2011. A sculpture by Antonio Canova,
Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss), circa 1793, photographed in the Louvre Museum, Paris, in the month of June 2011. A wall of breeze-blocks in front of the window of the Sox Gallery in Berlin, plus seats, platforms, carts, and other public works by
Veit Stratmann:
IN TROYES, 2009,
FOR THE CITY, 2004,
VOR SOX, 2010,
THE PLATFORMS, 2008. A wool cap by Dolce & Gabbana bearing the word BOXE (BOX), photographed in the M19 premises in the winter of 2011, in an allusion to Pierre Bonnard's 1931 self-portrait titled The Boxer, 1931, oil on canvas. A portrait photo of
Claude Lévêque taken by Hughes Bigo in 1987: “It was the golden age of alternative Punk.” A cardiac-training exercycle, being an unsigned ready-made sculpture. Urban architect Asma Khawatmi in her workshop in Montreuil, just outside Paris, on July 25, 2011. A portrait of
Vincent Lamouroux fueling his airplane, August 2011. An article by
Michel Gauthier titled “Football: Cruyff, Zidane, Modernism et Postmodernism.” Johan Cruyff photographed during an Ajax vs. Panathinaikos game on June 2, 1971. Zinedine Zidane photographed during a Switzerland vs. France game on October 8, 2005. A painted plaster potato, prototype for a project in bronze by
Mathieu Mercier, 2010. A cannibal's fork and plate, photographed at the
Tous cannibales show at La Maison Rouge, Paris, in March 2011. The solar corona photographed during a total eclipse of the sun on February 15, 1961 by the Observatoire du pic du Midi in France. A picture of a white balloon against a white wall, titled Souffle de
Nicolas Bourriaud, 2011. A work by Carsten Höller titled
Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes, 2011. An article by
Jérôme Bel in which the choreographer explains why his project to mount a show with no actors never took place. A photo of the empty stage of the Kaaitheater in Brussels, where Bel's show had its tryout. Three photos of the statement OUTSIDE OF ANY GIVEN CONTEXT, taken at a
Liam Gillick and
Lawrence Weiner exhibition titled
A Syntax of Dependency, hosted by Muhka in Antwerp from February 3 to May 29, 2011. An electric drill on the floor, being a work by
Ceal Floyer titled
Drill, 2006. The final verse of the final canto of the first part of Dante's
Divine Comedy, in which he speaks of the Inferno. And, in conclusion, the words: “A cell phone rings: ‘Where are you?'”
