Brrrrraoum! Every quarter of an hour, on a giant screen and its stereo dolby, the volcano erupts and the Grand Palais trembles. Then, from this digital Vesuvius, 4 km³ of pumice stones and fiery clouds are vomited, projected on all the surfaces of the immense drawing room. The black is done. Here we are buried. Guaranteed thrill.
But did we necessarily come to live and relive this apocalypse, we who, only a few weeks ago, were in turn vitrified because of the Covid-19 pandemic? Do we absolutely have to imagine ourselves as one of those unfortunate people who left their form in the ashes in 79 AD? Their modern, very touching casts have been bizarrely placed under a simulated amphitheater. Bleachers, actually. They allow the public to sit in front of the main attraction, Vesuvius.
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Unlike previous exhibitions, such as that of 2011 in Paris at the Musée Maillol or that, very rich and already thundering, mounted in 2013 in London,
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