“I feel like I have a Harley dealership that opened in front of Bercy”
.
The terms are said.
Barely inaugurated, the sculpture paying homage to Johnny Hallyday in the center of the esplanade named after his name, Tuesday near Bercy, is decidedly not unanimous.
If not perhaps against her.
Invited on Saturday on RMC, Florent Pagny almost refrained from commenting on the work of plastic artist Bertrand Lavier, before finally giving in, after a few sighs, to a battery of disappointed remarks, comparing the monument to the emblem of a dealer big motorcycle.
A reaction against the general enthusiasm shared by the personalities invited to its inauguration on September 14.
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"I think that we should not try to do something other than the traditional"
, regretted the singer and French host who participated, alongside other artists, in the great tribute concert organized Tuesday evening in Bercy in memory. of the singer who died in December 2017. It is true that the sculpture, in the shape of a guitar neck of almost six meters crowned by a Harley-Davidson of a sparkling blue, is of an unusual air. The musical and motorized outburst it represents of course evokes the rebellious spirit of Johnny Hallyday.
"It amused me a lot to do it, because it is not at all my field"
, had explained at the beginning of the week, on France Inter, its creator Bertrand Lavier.
You can think for a long time to get an idea, and that's not necessarily what will help matters.
There, it is one thing which appeared obvious to me. "
Unconvinced fans
The obviousness of the artist was obviously not that of Florent Pagny.
Rather than a work of pure symbols imagined by Bertrand Lavier, the artist felt that a monument incorporating
the
magnetic
“attitude”
of the late rocker would undoubtedly have been preferable to adorn the esplanade of Bercy.
"For me, Johnny, it's such a silhouette… If we put Johnny, we put Johnny!"
, he exclaimed, sorry, on RMC
.
“He had such an attitude!
It represents such a picture!
Arrived on stage, legs a little apart, his microphone in his hand and all ... That's the image of Johnny. "
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Florent Pagny is not the first person to express his doubts about the astonishing monument. The daring shape of the sculpture, for example, had hardly thrilled the public of fans who had made the trip on Tuesday, for its inauguration. “
Nobody likes it.
Johnny deserved better. We are all very disappointed,
”said a woman from Nantes on the spot. Same disappointment on social networks, where the qualifiers of
"crap"
and
"ridiculous"
have flourished since Tuesday.
The erection of the monument offered to the city of Paris by Bertrand Lavier had however aroused, at the beginning of July, the approval of all the groups of the Council of Paris, with the exception of the 23 elected ecologists. They then denounced the aesthetics of sculpture.
"We honor a motorcycle brand more than the singer himself"
, noted the borough mayor Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie (EELV), regretting that the residents were not consulted. Present at the inauguration of the monument, Laeticia Hallyday, Johnny's last wife, said she found the work
"extraordinary"
. Bercy's silent blue motorcycle has not finished pulling out aesthetic roars.