Since 2006, the Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne has invited authors to take up the universe of artists in its permanent collection and turn it into short fictions.
The subject of this little book is the work of Pascal Pinaud, and more precisely his gesture as a painter. Parodying Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of Fairy Tales, it features three characters borrowed from Raymond Queneau: the Duke of Auge, the young Zazie and the parrot Laverdure. Their quest will consist in satisfying the whim of an ubiquitous and collecting queen, who requires “the essence of PPP”, an acronym used by the artist “Pascal Pinaud Peintre”.