Street Art Restoration Treasures Of A Tower In Paris - France
An exhibition of the temporary gallery will be held from October 1 to 31, 2013. This is the first time such place opens its doors to the public in Paris.
More than one hundred artists from around the world have spent seven months creating a temporary contemporary art gallery from the ground floor to the penthouse of a 10-floor building in Paris 13. Artists from eighteen countries (from the United States, the Middle East and Latina America) have volunteered in the making of these unusual artistic creations. Each artist has involved into this challenging adventure by expressing its own culture. The public has a last chance to visit the artwork before the building planned demolition. The building demolition will be the outcome of the performance. It will be conducted in collusion with a specialized company. The demolition will be recorded by film director Thomas Lallier and will be shown on the website tourparis13.fr.
“The destruction is part of the adventure,” Mehdi Ben Cheikh.
image-1) The neon facade of the building could be seen from the Bercy bridge over the Seine river without any idea of what lies behind its walls.
image-2) Going down from the penthouse for a free path in the maze of the tower. A painting of two oversized women’s faces plays with the rays of light passing through the windows of the old apartment. Andrea Michaelsson aka Btoy from Spain conducted the design of the living room and the bathroom on the 8th floor.
image-3) In their temporary installations, many artists such as Brazilian FLIP integrate into things left behind by the former tenants, reminding of a whole jumble of memories.
iimage-4) The French artist Sambre creates disorientation by using a tangle of unstructured doors to change the perspective in a narrow corridor.
image-5) This building has 36 apartments which gives the street artists involved in this project enough room to express their creativity; “using a wide range of new media to both express their inspiration and meet their artistic expectations” (Mehdi Ben Cheikh - Installation JB ROCK).
image-6) Installations play with Day light, as shown by this richly colored face painted by the Colombian artist Stinkfish which seems bothered by the rays of light beam shinning through the window into one of the 4th floor rooms.
image-7) The French “light painting” artist Marko Gilbert showcases the effect of neon fluorescent light by painting neon monsters on the walls to light up one of the 3rd floor living rooms.
image-8) Contemporary Installation by David Walker. Ongoing development in this area of Paris…
image-9) The walls become artwork and the buildings that we hardly dared to look at are visited by tourists… that’s the street art…
image-10) Installation by Mosko and his partners.