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“Les Extatiques” in La Défense: an impressive exhibition in the neighborhood’s basements

2024-02-01T14:30:01.618Z

Highlights: “Les Extatiques” in La Défense: an impressive exhibition in the neighborhood’s basements. For the first time, the vast underground spaces of Europe's largest business district are hosting a major exhibition of contemporary art. Luminous water features powered by… old pesticide spraying systems. Immense elastics erected in the shape of a large transparent building, illuminated in many colors. This essential stage is the last of the exhibition, lasting 45 minutes or 1h30, where the visitor is accompanied by an artist.


For the first time, the vast underground spaces of Europe's largest business district are hosting a major exhibition of contemporary art


Luminous water features powered by… old pesticide spraying systems.

Immense elastics erected in the shape of a large transparent building, illuminated in many colors.

To discover them, you have to go down two stairs under the La Défense esplanade, in what is nicknamed “The Cathedral”.

It is there, on some 5,000 m2 of a space which formerly connected the basement of the Les 4 Temps shopping center and the RER station, closed to the public for many years, that the art exhibition takes place contemporary “Les Extatiques”.

A first in these basements.

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Places that have already been inhabited by art since the existence of the largest business district in Europe born at the end of the 1950s, where the sculptor Raymond Moretti occupied his own workshop of 1,000 until his death in 2005. m2 with an impressive ceiling height, and created his “Monster” there, a more than monumental sculpture.

This essential stage is the last of the exhibition, lasting 45 minutes or 1h30, where the visitor is accompanied by an artist who sheds light on his questions.

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Source: leparis

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