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The Mound of Vendôme

Exhibition, Octagonal gallery, 19 June 2014 to 28 September 2014

The Mound of Vendôme. Installation view, 2014

The Mound of Vendôme. Installation view, 2014

The Mound of Vendôme. Installation view, 2014

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The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization.

Curator: David Gissen, California College of the Arts.

Place Vendôme Column, Paris

Unknown photographer. The Vendôme Column, Paris, 1851. PH1981:0773

Charles Marville. The Vendôme column being reconstructed, Paris. 1873-1874

Charles Marville, photographer. The Vendôme Column being reconstructed, Paris, 1873–1874. PH1981:0680

Bruno Braquehais, photographer. Statue of Napoléon I after the fall of the Vendôme column. 1871. Plate from <i>Siège de Paris, 1870-1871 / Album historique des Malheurs de Paris</i>

Bruno Braquehais, photographer. Statue of Napoléon I after the fall of the Vendôme Column, Paris, 1871. Plate from Siège de Paris, 1870-1871 / Album historique des Malheurs de Paris. PH1981:0672:009

Fabrizio Amoroso, photographer. David Gissen with signatories of the petition to rebuild the mound, Place Vendôme, 2013

Fabrizio Amoroso, photographer. David Gissen with signatories of the petition to rebuild the mound, Place Vendôme, Paris, 2013

David Gissen with Victor Hadjikyriacou. Rendering of the Mound of Vendôme, 2014

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