Exhibitions:
"Cyclop", High craftsmanship,
Madame Figaro
The revival of the “Cyclop”
Le Cyclop,
by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, in Milly-la-Forêt (91).
Régis Grman/Cnap
It is the marvel of the woods which always surprises with its enormous fantasy, its mad freedom and its audacious technique worthy of a traveling circus (22.5 m high, 350 t of steel!).
Anchored for fifty-three years near Milly-la-Forêt, in Essonne,
Le Cyclop
by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle is coming back to life after more than a year of meticulous and gigantic restoration, at the initiative of the Cnap (National Center for Plastic Arts).
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The Cyclop
of Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle finds a good figure
Thanks to a budget of 1.5 million euros, this colossal work, the result of a collaboration of 14 artists (including Eva Aeppli, Arman, César, Daniel Spoerri, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Rico Weber and Larry Rivers), will return to the public from May 22.
Construction began in 1969. Over the years, everything goes.
The Face of Mirrors,
by Niki de Saint Phalle, was the major challenge of this restoration.
Covered with mirrors over nearly 325 m2 (i.e. 62,000 tesserae), the work had begun to deteriorate in 1996...
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