The French artist Xavier Veilhan has created two new sculptures of architects authors of Pompidou Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, that will be permanently installed next month in Place Edmond Michelet outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
"The faceted silhouettes of architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers command attention with their size and bright color. Their fading reduction transforms them into silent shadows.
These sculptures are a variation to the two homonymous pieces in the Architects series, created for Xavier Veilhan’s personal exhibition at the Chateau de Versailles in 2009. In October, they will join the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and be permanently installed in the Place Edmond Michelet, across from their iconic creation, the Centre Pompidou, only a few months before the exhibition dedicated to the two architects there, " a gallery statement says
The sculptures were on show in an exhibition of Veilhan’s works at Galerie Perrotin in Paris (during September).
“The works are constructed in stainless steel and painted in tones of green, colors that recall the color code of the building and the time of its construction” a gallery statement says. Exhibited without pedestals at Perrotin gallery, they will mesure up to five meters high once installed in the public space, officially inaugurated during Fiac art fair week next month.
“Galerie Perrotin and Groupe Beaumarly, the owners of Café Beaubourg (located next to the Centre Pompidou), have financed the project; the two sculptures will be donated to the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou,” a museum statement says.
The building was opening in 1977, and this year is celebrating its 40th aniversary. In 1971, Piano and Rogers submitted their Centre Pompidou design to an architectural competition set up by the French government (together with Gianfranco Franchini and the engineers Ove Arup). Their proposal centred on “the construction of a building for information, fun and culture, a sort of machine, an ‘informative tool’”.
"The faceted silhouettes of architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers command attention with their size and bright color. Their fading reduction transforms them into silent shadows.
These sculptures are a variation to the two homonymous pieces in the Architects series, created for Xavier Veilhan’s personal exhibition at the Chateau de Versailles in 2009. In October, they will join the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and be permanently installed in the Place Edmond Michelet, across from their iconic creation, the Centre Pompidou, only a few months before the exhibition dedicated to the two architects there, " a gallery statement says
The sculptures were on show in an exhibition of Veilhan’s works at Galerie Perrotin in Paris (during September).
“The works are constructed in stainless steel and painted in tones of green, colors that recall the color code of the building and the time of its construction” a gallery statement says. Exhibited without pedestals at Perrotin gallery, they will mesure up to five meters high once installed in the public space, officially inaugurated during Fiac art fair week next month.
“Galerie Perrotin and Groupe Beaumarly, the owners of Café Beaubourg (located next to the Centre Pompidou), have financed the project; the two sculptures will be donated to the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou,” a museum statement says.
The building was opening in 1977, and this year is celebrating its 40th aniversary. In 1971, Piano and Rogers submitted their Centre Pompidou design to an architectural competition set up by the French government (together with Gianfranco Franchini and the engineers Ove Arup). Their proposal centred on “the construction of a building for information, fun and culture, a sort of machine, an ‘informative tool’”.
