The work is not yet installed that it is already controversial.
Intense buzz about the creation of Pascal Convert, supposed to be visible as soon as the cultural venues reopen.
Under the dome of the Invalides, right above the pit where the red quartzite tomb of Napoleon I is located, the plastic artist is about to suspend a 35 kg skeleton with two steel cables.
That of the Emperor's favorite horse, Marengo, a small bearded Arab captured by Wellington's troops at Waterloo.
At least its replica taken from a 3D scan of the bones kept at the National Army Museum in London.
The institution, arguing of their fragility, refused to lend them.
"The horse, a loyal friend of the military and which also suffered a lot during the wars, has already been immortalized by the painters of the time"
Ariane James-Sarazin, Deputy Director of the Army Museum
On the basis of this catch of war which has become an attraction for some relics for others, the piece in composite materials, baptized by its author
Memento Marengo
, is part of the bicentenary of the death of Corsica.
Since its commission, in 2019, it has been thought of as the culmination of a journey of contemporary works, the first
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