Posts Tagged ‘monumenta’
A look back at Buren’s Monumenta 2012 & the Bal Blanc (video)
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Four Tet, Caribou, Jamie XX, closing out Monumenta at Grand Palais June 21
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
To close in music Monumenta by Daniel Buren at the Grand Palais, We Love Art, in association with The Creators Project, invites you to participate in Bal Blanc under the huge skylight of the Grand Palais and the heart of the artist’s work.
The public is invited to dress only in white to immerse themselves deep into the polychromy of the work that Daniel Buren entitled “Eccentric (s), work in situ”, for live music and movement experience in color.
When: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Where: Grand Palais
Dress code: White
Last days for Monumenta 2011: Anish Kapoor’s Leviathan at Grand Palais
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Don’t miss the last two days of Monumenta 2011, hosted at the Grand Palais. Following on the heels of Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski, this year the French Ministry of Culture and Communication has invited Anish Kapoor to create something for the “monumental” space of the Grand Palais’ Nave.
Kapoor says about his work: “A single object, a single form, a single colour. My ambition is to create a space within a space that responds to the height and luminosity of the Nave at the Grand Palais. Visitors are invited to walk inside the work, to immerse themselves in colour, and it will, I hope, be a contemplative and poetic experience.”
Aptly called the Leviathan, visitors can catch this impressive work of art tomorrow, Wednesday from 10:00 to 19:00, and Thursday from 10:00 to 24:00, for €5.
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