Guy Limone is a Paris-based artist whose installations are based primarily on the three themes – those of statistics, color families and miniature figurines.
Since 1987, the French artist has been making works based on census reports and polls.
In his exhibition ‘67, 857 inhabitants per sq. mile’ in 1996 at the New York Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Guy Limone applies the logic of statistics to precisely quantify each Manhattanite’s share of elbow room. By dividing the surface of Manhattan (22.2 square miles) by the number of inhabitants (1,506,430 in 1994), Limone calculates that each resident is allotted 410 square feet of space.
