A series of rediscovered portraits of Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, taken in the 1980s and 1990s in his iconic Parisian apartment-gallery.
Between 1983 and 1998, the photographer Unglee developed a close relationship with Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, an art agent who championed conceptual and minimal art in Paris. In his gallery-apartment on rue Beaubourg, which became an emblematic place of the Paris art scene, a series of portraits was created over the years in a spirit of great freedom.
Photographed among works by Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt and Lawrence Weiner, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville appears elegant, relaxed and radiant.
Bringing together 45 photographs, this book retraces fifteen years of friendship and creation, while offering an intimate portrait of a man who transformed his living space into a place entirely devoted to contemporary art.
In 2016, MAMCO acquired and reproduced L'Appartement.
A French visual artist and videographer, Unglee first gained recognition in the late 1970s for his experimental films and in the 1980s for his photographs of tulips.
Alongside his exhibitions, in the 1990s he contributed to art magazines such as Art Press, Art Présence, and Technikart, publishing his "Disappearances," fictional newspaper obituaries recounting his life and his lifelong passion for tulips. These works, situated at the intersection of language and visual arts, exude an ironic spirit and a wry elegance, even as they reflect on his ever-present disappearance.
Later, he appeared on France Culture with a series of sound pieces entitled "In Search of Giulietta Fabrizzi," an extension of his visual art. In the 2000s, he created a series of videos on the theme of declarations of love, which are a kind of song without music. They have been shown at Museum Africa in Johannesburg, the Centre Pompidou, the Printemps de Septembre festival in Toulouse, the Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, the Instants Vidéo festival in Manosque, the Kunstfilmbiennale in Cologne, the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, and in 2007 in the exhibition "Eros in Modern Art" at the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen/Basel.
In 2015, his complete 16mm films entered the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
In 2025, the Good or Trash gallery in Paris discovered his black and white portraits of Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, an art agent in Paris, which he created in the 1980s and 90s, and dedicated an exhibition to them.
