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Roman Ondák

Measuring the Universe
09.24.10 - 10.17.10
Exhibition — les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse

Measuring the Universe, Roman Ondák
Photo credit : Adrien Duquesnel, Le Printemps de septembre—à Toulouse 2010

Measuring the Universe, Roman Ondák
Photo credit : Adrien Duquesnel, Le Printemps de septembre—à Toulouse 2010

Measuring the Universe, 2007
Collections Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; MoMA, New-York and Tate Modern, London
Courtesy gb agency, Paris

Measuring the Universe, 2007 © Roman Ondák
Collections Pinakothek Moderne, Munich; MoMA, New York and Tate Modern, London
Courtesy gb agency, Paris

Born 1966 in Zilina (Slovakia), he lives in Bratislava.


Measuring the Universe invites visitors to have their height measured and tell their given name to an operator who will write this information on the wall, along with the date of their visit. The accumulation of all this individual information will gradually build into a spectacular ephemeral drawing.