Retour à la caverne – Acte I
A work by JR on the façade of the Palais Garnier, evoking Plato’s cave, a place of knowledge and transmission.
Free access to projections on the Place de l’Opéra on September 9, 10, 16 and 17.
Palais Garnier, Opéra de Paris
Place de l’Opéra, 75009 Paris
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From September 6 to 25, 2023
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As part of the restoration of the Palais Garnier, the Opera national de Paris has invited the artist JR to decorate the scaffolding covering the monument with two successive installations.
The façade of the monument becomes an anamorphosis, and is transformed into the entrance to a vast cavern that opens onto a passageway of rock and light.
Like an opera libretto, the artist proposes a metamorphosis of the façade in two acts, the first in September and the second in November.
Free access screenings on the Place de l’Opéra from 9:15pm to 10pm:
- Saturday September 9: Les Bosquets by JR, L’oiseau de feu by Maurice Béjart
- Sunday, September 10: Boléro by Maurice Béjart, an excerpt from Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Robert Carsen, Brise-lames by Damien Jalet
- Saturday September 16: an excerpt from Le Parc by Angelin Preljocaj, Die Grosse Fuge by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, an excerpt from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Simon Stone
- Sunday September 17: The Art Of Not Looking Back by Hofesh Shechter, an excerpt from Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau, directed by Clément Cogitore
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