the Angle(L) And(W) the Curve(J) in the grandparis by André Chami
Built and inaugurated in Paris for the MCMXXXVIII Universal Exhibition, the Palais de Tokyo’s function as a museum has evolved over the years to become not only an avant-guard space for contemporary art but also a social hub for creatives.
Currently, after seventy seven years of existence in the public space, Alfred Janniot’s two-sided bas relief framework ‘Legend of the Sea’ and ‘Legend of the Earth’ is being restored.
Since the 1990’s the Palais de Tokyo’s forecourt and Janniot’s large sandy-coloured carved frescos have hosted generations of skateboarders who come to enjoy the space’s aesthetic vastness and tranquility at the heart of the city.
For the 2015 Wool Week, curator André Chami and LWJ designed a performative art piece on the Palais de Tokyo’s forecourt to capture skateboarders’ repetitive pattern thanks to a giant printing machine archiving their movements onto ink on square pieces of wool.
The concave trajectories of the skateboarders activity on delimited squares of wool perfectly embodies the essence of LWJ - the angle(L) and(W) the curve(J).
The overall performance was accompanied by a live synesthetic acoustic piece by artists Luca Ventimiglia and Victor Nebbiolo Di Castri. Enjoy watching the piece here:
As a tribute to matter in the digital age, we chose Alfred Janniot’s timeless sculptural fresco as the backdrop for our CITRUS prelude curation photo shoot. This unlocked LWJ’s printed 3x3m blue-ink on wool artworks created in MMXV.
Continue your exploration with:
one of the eighth printed wool sheet
