18/6/2013
Loris Greaud
Two Venues, Paris
[I]. The artist has conceived an artistic project in two parts. At the Louvre, a ghostly and mysterious sculpture suffuses the empty space beneath the Pyramid, while resonating with one of the museum's iconic masterpieces. The second part of the installation, a work both monumental and performative in the Centre Pompidou's ground-floor Forum.
From June 19, 2013 to January 20, 2014, the Louvre
presents one of the two components of [I], Loris Gréaud’s
latest installation project. This work thus becomes the third
site-specific installation by a contemporary artist—after
Tony Cragg’s red wood sculpture Versus in 2011 and Wim
Delvoye’s Gothic corkscrew-shaped Corten steel tower
Suppo in 2012—at the central column supporting the entry
platform of Ieoh Ming Pei’s famed pyramid, a space always
intended by the architect for the display of a monumental
sculpture, a work of art welcoming visitors to the museum.
Louvre Pyramid
Loris Gréaud has conceived an artistic project in two parts.
At the Louvre, a ghostly and mysterious sculpture suffuses
the empty space beneath the Pyramid, while resonating
with one of the museum’s iconic masterpieces. The
sculpture is a reflection on the imaginary hold of statuary,
its inception, its visceral presence, its unveiling. The second
part of the installation, a work both monumental and
performative, is on view from June 19 to July 15, 2013 in
the Centre Pompidou’s ground-floor Forum.
Loris Gréaud’s two-part installation is titled [I], which
suggests an elongation of the Louvre Pyramid while also
bringing to mind the Centre Pompidou’s transparent tubes.
Immediately connected with the first-person singular pronoun
in English, i is also the imaginary unit in complex number
theory. A unit that, in the way of an axiom, can serve as a
solution for many equations using real data. At the Louvre,
Loris Gréaud’s [I] captures the drawing out of the liminal
moment between anticipation and unveiling. At the Centre
Pompidou, the artist creates a new mode of narration, that of a
solitary piece constantly renewing itself through the energy it
pours forth.
Exhibition curator: Marie-Laure Bernadac, curator in charge
and special advisor on contemporary Art, Musée du Louvre,
assisted by Pauline Guelaud.
Publication
Loris Gréaud, [I] by the artist, together with Marie-Laure
Bernadac, curator in charge and special advisor on
contemporary art, Musée du Louvre and Michel Gauthier,
curator, Centre Pompidou.
Co-published by Musée du Louvre Editions, Dilecta and
Editions du Centre Pompidou.
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