Pompidou Center Exhibition Features 120-Foot Jack Kerouac 'On the Road' Piano Roll Installation

The Centre Pompidou in Paris presented an exhibition featuring a 120-foot piano roll transcript of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road." This installation was documented in a photograph by Annie Viannet for MaxPPP. The exhibition focused on Beat Generation artists and writers, with Kerouac's work serving as a central visual element. A review of the show was published on artcritical.com on September 8, 2016. The installation shot prominently displayed the lengthy scroll in the foreground of the exhibition space. The piano roll format visually represented Kerouac's famous continuous scroll manuscript technique. The exhibition provided historical context about the Beat movement's influence on contemporary art. Photographic documentation captured the scale and presentation of this literary-artistic hybrid object.