One is one of the most successful composers in the world, the other a contemporary artist with an international reputation.
At the same time as Maurice Genevoix and “Those of 14”, the French Pascal Dusapin and the German plastic artist Anselm Kiefer will make their entry into the Pantheon, through a series of paintings and a sound work.
"The President of the Republic has placed an order with these two artists in order to link history and creation and to reconcile memories"
, explains one at the Elysee.
The Pantheon already has another stone monument in memory of the Great War,
To the unknown heroes, to the unknown martyrs who died for France
, commissioned in 1913 from the sculptor Henri Bouchard.
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Financed from the budget of the Ministry of Culture (one million euros), the new presidential project will be resolutely contemporary, even a bit disruptive like what the war was - especially since the two creations are perennial.
The two works, partly composed with clothes soiled with mud, were "massacred, beaten, sometimes put outside in the rain or even burned"
Anselm Kiefer, visual artist
Anselm Kiefer, is German, but has lived in France since
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