JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear
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"The French artist JR has created an anamorphosis of the Musée du Louvre's pyramid by entirely covering one of its glass sides with a black-and-white photograph. The image of the museum buildings behind is intended to give the illusion that I.M.Pei's pyramid has temporarily disappeared.
“JR wanted to intervene in a spectacular manner in the public space,” says Stéphane Malfettes, a curator at the Louvre, about how the work came about.
JR, best known for mounting women's portraits onto building facades in a Brazilian favela and his Inside Out global art project, had a specific idea in mind: to combat the selfie “phenomenon” of tourists snapping themselves in front of the Louvre without really observing its architecture.
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