{"id":4864,"date":"2020-06-09T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eliascrespin.net\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:33:56","slug":"londe-du-midi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliascrespin.net\/en\/londe-du-midi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Onde du Midi at the Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"http:\/\/www.eliascrespin.net\/wp-content\/themes\/eliascrespin\/images\/social\/\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"eliascrespin\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"L%27Onde%20du%20Midi%20at%20the%20Louvre\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Public collection | Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris<br \/>&gt; opening on January 24th, 2020<\/p>\n<p>To mark the 30th anniversary of the Pyramid, the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre has commissioned another major public artwork, inviting\u00a0Elias Crespin to design a new permanent piece for the museum.<br \/>Consisting of 128 metal tubes hanging from motor-powered cables, the artist\u2019s kinetic creation, &#8216;L\u2019Onde du Midi&#8217;, will perform its subtle choreography at the top of the Escalier du Midi in the southeast corner of the Cour Carr\u00e9e. Crespin thus follows in the footsteps of leading contemporary art figures who have created works for the Louvre, such as Anselm Kiefer (2007), Fran\u00e7ois Morellet (2010) and Cy Twombly (2010).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;L\u2019Onde du Midi&#8217; is an example from the artist\u2019s &#8216;Plano Flexionante&#8217; series, the sculpture is made up of parallel rows of 128 cylindrical tubes suspended in midair by invisible cables. When still, the ethereal mobile becomes a rectangular horizontal plane some 10 meters in length (W. 1.50 x L. 9.5 m). In perpetual motion, the piece seems unaffected by gravity, moving through space at a height of 3 to 4.5 meters in sequences regulated by numerical algorithms. This non-linear, undulating mechanical dance invites visitors to slow down and contemplate the enchanting work.<br \/>As though hypnotized, the spectator is drawn into the slow, graceful interplay of shapes, with its unexpected and infinite variations. The mobile\u2019s spatial configurations are endlessly surprising: the shapes expand, become level, and diffract, substituting chaos for order, complexity for simplicity. As the stage of a mute ballet, the Escalier du Midi serves as a &#8216;rest area&#8217; for museum visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Mus\u00e9e du Louvre &#8211; Escalier du Midi <br \/>Rue de Rivoli <br \/>75001 Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public collection | Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris&gt; opening on January 24th, 2020 To mark the 30th anniversary of the Pyramid, the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre has commissioned another major public artwork, inviting\u00a0Elias Crespin to design a new permanent piece for the museum.Consisting of 128 metal tubes hanging from motor-powered cables, the artist\u2019s kinetic creation, &#8216;L\u2019Onde du&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliascrespin.net\/en\/londe-du-midi-2\/\" title=\"ReadL&#8217;Onde du Midi at the Louvre\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L&#039;Onde du Midi at the Louvre | Elias Crespin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliascrespin.net\/en\/londe-du-midi-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"L&#039;Onde du Midi at the Louvre | Elias Crespin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Public collection | Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris&gt; opening on January 24th, 2020 To mark the 30th anniversary of the Pyramid, the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre has commissioned another major public artwork, inviting\u00a0Elias Crespin to design a new permanent piece for the museum.Consisting of 128 metal tubes hanging from motor-powered cables, the artist\u2019s kinetic creation, &#8216;L\u2019Onde du... 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