page_title: Gabriel Méxène
section_title: Stone books
hierarchical_section_title: Gabriel Méxène / Stone books
caption_attribution_description: English: Six engraved and painted stones on permanent exhibition at the Romain Gary Library of Nice
context_page_description: Gabriel Méxène is a French-speaking poet, painter and engraver.
context_section_description: Les Figures, Livre Delta, 2015 (Eight engraved, gilded and painted stones) Musées de la Citadelle de Villefranche-sur-Mer. The Delta Book, known as the "Dragon Book of Piedmont-Savoy", contains 1400 Roman capital letters engraved by hand on Tavel marble. The hours of an ideal day take place according to 6 landscapes. The book elaborates a relation to the sacred by recreating a link with polytheism. It conceptualizes a thought of alterity therefore of memory. 
  Les Figures, Livre Tau, 2019 (Six engraved and painted stones) on permanent exhibition at the Romain Gary Library of Nice. The Tau Book, known as the "Temple Book of Piedmont-Savoy", contains 800 Roman capital letters engraved by hand on Tavel marble. The Tau Book is installed at the four pillars of the reading room of the Nice Heritage Library. It celebrates Mediterranean culture and major metaphysical aspirations. This book conceptualizes the "library" as a temple built according to the Etruscan rite.
caption: The Figures, Tau Book, pages 3/4 on permanent exhibition at the Romain Gary Library of Nice.
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