Tourists feature in very big 'le wrap' [+vid]
Completed in 1790 the Pantheon in Paris contains the remains of some of France’s most famous citizens.
Wednesday, 30 Jul 2014 11:43 GMT
Le wrap: the Pantheon's renovation has been celebrated with 'le wrap'
The secular mausoleum takes its name and style from Rome’s great building, built during the Roman Empire. It attracts thousands of visitors, who are drawn by memorials to the great and good who lie within its walls and its extraordinary architecture and interior décor.
They turned to the French street artist and photographer JR (as he calls himself) to create an artwork out of the building”
Now it has another attraction: the visitors themselves. To mark its restoration this summer, the gov-ernment-funded Centre des Monuments Nationaux decided to commission an artwork to celebrate people who visit the monuments it preserves by wrapping the vast classical edifice with imagery. They turned to the French street artist and photographer JR (as he calls himself) to create an artwork out of the building. They commissioned JCDecaux Advertising and the Parisian municipal team to put JR’s concept into action by developing and installing more than 3000 m² of canvas on the inside and outside of the Pantheon with a black and white photo-collage of visitor portraits.
Death house: the mauseleum is filled with faces of the living
The canvas walls and the floor were printed at Agfa Graphics customer BS2i. JR’s installation co-vers the dome, the cupola, and the floor of the Pantheon featuring 5,000 portraits. The visual on the floor was composed of more than 70 panels, which were printed on an Anapurna M2500 large-format inkjet printer from Agfa Graphics.
The outside artwork will be exposed throughout the construction on the Pantheon’s upper parts, whereas the inside installation will remain until October 5th, 2014—so should you fancy walking all over the artwork this summer, you can.
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This film from ParisianNewsTV gives an insight into the art installation:
