Jonathan Livingston (Affiche)
This poster was created by the M/M Paris graphic design studio, which regularly collaborates with many contemporary artists and European art institutions. It presents Jonathan Livingstone, a short film by François Curlet showing the wanderings of an undertaker in a white shirt and tailcoat through a deserted countryside in a hybrid car which is represented in the background: the coming together of a Jaguar E-Type and a hearse which are welded together in the middle. The lone undertaker comes close to crashing several times in his quest for speed— ironically as if he is already in a vehicle anticipating the possibility of his demise. The grinning feline emblazoned on the spokes of a wheel in the foreground could be a reference to the famous car brand Jaguar, but in a disturbing version that adds to the strangeness of the piece.
Text written by Marianne Tricoire as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.