Monumenta at the Grand Palais:Anselm Kiefer’s Falling Stars
The recent 135 million euro renovation of the Grand Palais has a new art event series called Monumenta. For the next 3 years an international artist is invited to showcase their work and use the vast and spectacular space as a backdrop for an installation.
Anselm Kiefer is the chosen one this year and what a right-on choice. This installation, Falling Stars, is a stunner and a shocker. It is a series of six 50 ft. aluminum bunkers with art inside of each, and some inspired by literature and poetry. The most visceral is the sixth house with the sculpture of broken glass sandwiched in between sheets of metal with the shattered glass extended on to the floor. In the third house there are 3 muddy landscapes interspersed with bright flowers making them look like rough-hewn impressionist paintings. The fifth house, a tribute to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s book “Journey to the End of the Night”, has 30 paintings with old worn out ships and rough seas evokes being lost in the darkness. The other literature inspired work is from Celan’s poem “The Secret of the Ferns,” and is 44 paintings of ferns in dried clay.
Alongside the houses are 3 disturbing concrete sculptures that represent invincibility and invisibility according to the artist but seemed like destruction and the end of the world to me.
The installation has you appreciate the beauty and grandeur of the Grand Palais, which was originally built for the 1900 Paris Exhibition, and the color of the intricate green metal work pops against the concrete floors and metal bunkers.
Don’t miss this powerful, awe-inspiring exhibition.
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Monumenta: Anselm Kiefer’s Falling Stars
Till July 8th
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Posted by: viajes gratis | June 09, 2007 at 12:02 AM