Monumenta 2010 Paris

Location: Grand Palais

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Description

Each year, a leading international contemporary artist is invited by the Ministry of Culture and Communication to create an exceptional new work for the 13,500 m² nave of the Grand Palais.

This year contemporary French artist Christian Boltanski has taken up the Monumenta challenge and created "Personnes", an intensely moving installation conceived as a gigantic animated tableau.

A work in sound and vision, Personnes takes up a new theme in Boltanski's work, building on his earlier explorations of the limits of human existence and the vital dimension of memory, the question of fate, and inevitably of death.

Personnes is a one-off, ephemeral work. In accordance with the artist's wishes, the components of the piece will all be recycled at the end of the exhibition.

Venue Information

Address: Grand palais des Champs-Elysées, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris

Tickets: Adults 4 euro / Reduced Rate 2 euro / Under 13s free

Times:
Daily except Tuesday
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday and Wednesday
From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday to Sunday

Transport:
Metro: Lines 1, 9, 13 / Stations : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau
RER: lignes C / Stations : Invalides
Bus: lignes 28, 42, 52, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93

website: Monumenta 2010 Paris