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Daniel Buren’s latest installation at Paris’s Grand Palais. Wow.

From Architizer Blog:

“For the 2012 annual Monumenta artist Daniel Buren has suspended a vast “melancholy lake” of color-filtered parasols above the floor of Paris’s Grand Palais… 

Entitled “Excentrique(s)”, Buren’s work functions as a continuous canopy of Twister-colored circular pavilions that covers the space’s 13,500 square meter-wide ground floor. The resultant supra-structure is calibrated to the minimum height required for the standard Paris apartment, forming a low-lying plenum that drowns visitors, as the Guardian notes, in dampened color and light-laced shadow. Standing beneath this vaguely psychedelic forest, the century-old vaulted glass ceiling of the Grand Palais becomes tinged with a day-glo melancholy, not quite as “dirty and sad” as Walter Benjamin described, but more muted and jaded. The day after disco.”