Poirier En Suspension Palais d'Iena

Designed by architect August Perret in 1939, the Palais d’Iéna which houses the French Economic Environmental Council is an outstanding architectural marvel and also a space that is particularly adapted to three dimensional art.

During the 2018 FIAC in Paris, a year before Giuseppe Penone’s Matrice di Linfa, the Palais d’Iéna hosted « Suspension » an exhibition curated by Mathieu Poirier compiling a history of hanging sculptures from 1918 to 2018. Marcel Duchamp was one of the first to to experiment with gravity with his 1918 sculpture de voyage (sculpture for traveling) and soon paved the way for “Mobile” art which really took off in the 1950’s, in the early days of space exploration with artists Soto, Daniel Buren, Julio Le Parc, Sol LeWitt or Robert Morris.

Yves Klein’s relief planétaire bleu sans titre (RP 23) 1961