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Anselm Kiefer and contemporary art forever at the Panthéon

2020-11-10T15:38:43.516Z


REPORT - The most French of German artists has created six lasting works that fit perfectly into the monument of the nation. This public commission marks, with the "sound cloud" composed by Pascal Dusapin, the pantheonization of the writer Maurice Genevoix.


It is the long road of art that goes beyond the time of wars and borders, generations and cultures.

It unites in a solid way, at the same time historical, literary and poetic, the memory of the writer of 14-18, Maurice Genevoix (1890-1980) and the contemporary world embodied by the artist Anselm Kiefer, born on March 8. 1945 in Donaueschingen in the Black Forest, in Baden-Württemberg, and the composer Pascal Dusapin, born May 29, 1955 in Nancy.

Read also: Anselm Kiefer, visionary in large format

The three will be on the agenda, Wednesday, November 11, 2020, at 6 p.m., for a two-hour tribute ceremony, meticulously prepared, that France 2 will broadcast live.

No photographs of the works, already anchored in stone, are allowed to circulate between now and then.

A huge articulated arm is being installed, in the middle of Kiefer's windows, for the movement of the cameras in this architecture which rises to 83 m.

For the Center des monuments nationaux (CMN), it is also a question of renewing the look at one of its flagships

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Source: lefigaro

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