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The Grand Palais Recently renovated, the Grand Palais is considered an historical site in Paris and worldwide. Designed for the 1900 World Exhibition, it is endowed with an architecture of monumental dimensions. Its immense glass-roofed space rises to 45 meters at the high point of its dome; its nave over 200 metres long covers an unobstructed single surface area of 13,500 square meters. The Grand Palais welcomes numerous important cultural events, in particular various contemporary art events (Monumenta, the FIAC, etc.). For LA FORCE DE L’ART, the Nave is home to Resident artists, and Guest artists. Read more about the Grand Palais The Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower, 324 m high and weighing 10,100 tonnes, was built for the 1889 World Exhibition. Representing both technical prowess and emblematic modernity, the "Great Iron Lady" has become legendary, an international symbol for Paris. It is today one of the most visited sites in the world. Bertrand Lavier will tinker with the glittering lights on this universally symbolic monument for LA FORCE DE L’ART 02. Read more about The Visitors Jean Perrin founded the Palais de la Découverte in 1937 for the International Exhibition “Art and Technique in Modern Life”; at the time the west wing of the Grand Palais was set aside for this purpose. Although it was not intended to last, its success has made it a part of Paris’ heritage. In seeking to make science more accessible with a view to arousing curiosity and awakening of a critical outlook, it was a natural for receiving an installation by Annette Messager, which will send planets into orbit there. Read more about The Visitors The Musée Grévin Dreamed up by Arthur Meyer, it was Alfred Grévin and his wax statues which made it live in 1882. Its incontestable success turned it into a temple to glorious history, as well as the strange, the spectacular and the sensational. A mythical place of illusions, the Musée Grévin offers the public an incredible opportunity to “get close to” the well-known figures who made history or the celebrities who make today’s news. ORLAN will be the first contemporary artist to be present at the Grévin owing to the installation of one of her artworks there throughout the event. Read more about The Visitors The Eglise Saint Eustache In the centre of Paris, the church of Saint-Eustache, built in 1532, is a Gothic jewel appreciated by many important figures in French history: Louis XIV, Richelieu, Molière and Mirabeau, to name just a few. Attached both to the spiritual life and to human solidarity and culture, it has participated actively in the Nuit Blanche all-night music festival, the Autumn Festival of Paris, as well as LA FORCE DE L’ART 02 event. It is at Saint-Eustache that Pierre and Gilles will create their first Virgin with Child for one of its large side chapels. Read more about The Visitors The Musée du Louvre The imposing former home to the kings of France, the Louvre Palace has gradually become the mythical Louvre Museum, today one of the world’s most important and visited museums. Since its creation it has embodied a universal vision of what a museum should be and has determinedly opened itself to contemporary art by maintaining a dialogue, an essential one, between masters of the past and artists of today. It is here that Gérard Collin Thiébaut will present his Transcriptions, puzzle-artworks linked to the most famous paintings in the museum's collection. Read more about The Visitors |
