Louvre Palace

In an uncertain era, an appraisal expert with a peculiar name is hired to work at the mysterious "Museum of Endings" with an assistant named Leonardo. Their serious, irregular job is to count countless collections and measure endless corridors. He discovers that the museum known to the world is just the tip of the iceberg, so he descends layer by layer, delving deeper into its bowels, approaching its foundations, and at the same time, stepping closer to the true meaning of the "museum."

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Part of the "Louvre Meets Comics" series, "When Mathieu Met the Louvre": What kind of answer will the author of "Direction," "3 Seconds," and "Universal Judgment" provide when creating a work based on the "Louvre" theme within a given timeframe?

◎ Mathieu earnestly tells absurd and wild fantasies, presenting a bizarre reflection of the art world through monotonous grey images. If the ground-level building of the world's largest museum is merely the tip of a pyramid, what kind of mirror-world encounters await within its subterranean palace? If each level of the subterranean palace is much larger than the last, with many more collections and collections about collections, then what will the hired expert for statistics and appraisal, along with his assistant, experience?

◎ In this "assigned essay," Mathieu constantly deviates from the topic yet always manages to tie it back, with each chapter being a parody or spoof of a particular artistic theme. He revels in "pictures within pictures" and creates an endless stream of wordplay, gradually changing in repetition to reinforce the theme.

Finding reason and interest in absurdity, and deep emotion in indifference: museums are boundless, collections are endless, art has no beginning or end, only humans are insignificant, and only life is fleeting. Perhaps humans are insignificant because they face the crystallization of all humanity's wisdom and emotions, and museums are great because they preserve the traces of countless lives and the legacy of art.