Paris may be the City of Light, but Ryoji Ikeda's blinding tower of light, Spectra [Paris], elevates the cliche from banal to stratospheric This new work by the Japanese artist was commissioned for Nuit Blanche, Paris' annual all-night contemporary arts festival. By surrounding it on all four sides with light, Ikeda's initial intention was to make the city's 210m-tall Montparnasse Tower disappear. This proved a technical impossibility, but also a stroke of luck- the installation succeeds because of its visual comparison to the 59-storey tower, a building so unpopular that the construction of skyscrapers in the city centre was banned two years after its completion.
展开▼
