As a Paris insider, I have an embarrassing admission to make:
I’ve never been to The Pantheon. Quelle Horreur! Sunday afternoon I finally went, and the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s astounding installation was worth the wait.
The installation, inspired by a sea monster in the Book of Job, is a series of white fabric sculptures filled with tiny grains of white polystrene, where the shapes look like a combination of white tear drops, cow udders, and snow filled balloons. Words don’t do it justice and the pictures help, but it’s simply one of those things you have to experience in person. This installation jumps to the top of my Eye Need to Do List and absolutely don’t miss it.
Click on to the Pantheon photo album on the right for more pictures.
Ernesto Neto’s Leviathan Thot at The Pantheon
Place de Pantheon, 75005
Metro: Cardinal Lemoine, Line 10
Till December 31st
Pantheon Facts
Originally built as a church, The Pantheon is one of the great neo-classic buildings of Paris, and it later became a temple and burial ground. Designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, it was not completed till 1789, 9 years after his death by his student Jean-Baptiste Rondelet. Located under the central dome of is the famous Focault pendant. Voltaire, Rousseau, Marat, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie, Louis Braille are all buried in the necropolis(cemetery).
We called it the panty hose exhibit!
Posted by: Tanna | December 14, 2006 at 09:35 AM