85.8° Arc x 16 - Versailles, France
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85.8° Arc x 16 is a work from the artist Bernar Venet, a French Sculptor.
Waymark Code: WMCV36
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 10/13/2011
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85.8° Arc x 16 is a work from the artist Bernar Venet, a French Sculptor.
It´s placed in Front of the Versailles Palace behind the equestrian Statue of Louis XIV. It was created specifically for this spot, and provides two angles. First, it encircles Louis XIV’s equestrian statue – and overhangs it. Then it opens up a new perspective: it frames the chateau it towers over. It is something of an interlude, a decompression chamber. And it intertwines two scales: an amplified human scale (the Louis XIV statue) and a monumental scale (Mansart’s architecture). The arcs stand 22 high between them.
Bernar Venet was born in 1941 in Château-Arnoux Saint-Auban, in the Alpes de Haute Provence (France). He lives and works in New York and Hungary.
Title: 85.8° Arc x 16
Artist: Bernar Venet
Media (materials) used: Iron
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Place de Armes - Versailles Palace
Date of creation or placement: 2011
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