Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - First Version

Bouvard and Pécuchet's Invented Desk For Copying

2007-2009
Dimensions variable
Various materials
(Version One pictured above)

A series of sculptures pulled from the unfinished pages of Flaubert's last novel. A modest monument to bourgeois cliche, friendship, amateurism and potential; the failures of total knowledge, authority, and books as a site of learning.

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - First Version

Version One

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Second Version

Version Two

Reading room wall text by Erika Balsom

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - second version

Version Two

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Third and Fourth Versions

Third and Fourth Versions

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Fourth Version

Version Four

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Third and Fourth Versions

Third and Fourth Versions

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Fifth Version

Version Five

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Eighth Version

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Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Eighth Version

Version Eight

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Ninth Version

Version Nine

Gareth Long - Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying - Tenth Version

Version Ten (Prouvé's Compass Version - Construction Diagram)