The Louvre Pyramid blows out its 30 candles in an apparent new look

The Louvre Pyramid is celebrating 30 years since its completion in 1989 by architect Ieoh Ming Pei: the work, probably among the most photographed in the French capital, triggered quite a few criticisms that pitted on one side the advocates of modernity and on the other side the conservatives who fought not to let the city degenerate into a kind of amusement park.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the famous monument, contemporary artist JR involved four hundred volunteers in the completion of acollective work, where the entire Cour Napoléon will be modified through a kind of collage that will visually make the Pyramid rise above the surrounding surface.

Already in 2016, JR had “modified” through the collage effect the surface of the Parisian Pyramid: this, by anoptical illusion, seemed to dissolve and transform depending on the point of observation.

The Louvre Pyramid will therefore blow out its candles in an apparent new guise.

Source: Ansa - Sky Arte

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The Louvre Pyramid blows out its 30 candles in an apparent new look

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