It is a beautiful artistic and united project that the All-Paris of contemporary art would have loved to see at the Palais de Tokyo.
Without the prospect of reopening the museums, it will be dismantled next week.
A real mess.
But with his optimism, the Belgian designer Charles Kaisin intends to bring it to life elsewhere, before a tour in France.
“The idea for this forest of giant trees made of small origami in the shape of birds was born last March during confinement,
explains this architect by training who learned his skills from Jean Nouvel (Paris), Tony Cragg ( Wuppertal, in Germany) and Ron Arad (Royal College, in London)
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I had been very marked in Kyoto, Japan, by this secular tradition.
Making a wish together, with thousands of doves symbolizing solidarity, made sense to me, during a pandemic. ”
Surrealist dinners
Before Paris, the “Origami for Life” project was visible in Brussels, since last March, at Kanal-Center Pompidou (before its opening in 2023) then
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