Museums in Paris: Pyramide du Louvre (Part 2 of 3)

Another component of the 30th Anniversary celebration was a temporary art installation in the Louvre's courtyard where the Pyramid is located.

   

French artist JR, whose work we saw in NYC during a street art tour, was commissioned to produce a work for the anniversary.

JR uses various artistic techniques, including large-scale pasting, which involves creating large images on buildings by pasting printed paper on the surfaces.  In this instance, JR, his team, and hundreds of volunteers worked for several days to transform the courtyard of the Louvre by using hundreds of rolls of pre-printed paper to "reveal what had been hidden below ground".

We visited the installation while it was progressing and saw team members pasting long rolls of paper onto the floor of the courtyard.   

The team's progress was displayed on a large screen in the courtyard.

We were fortunate to spot the artist JR.

After the installation was completed and photographed, the public was invited to walk on the artwork and encouraged to remove a piece.  The artist JR intended for this work to be ephemeral and for viewers to take a piece home.  

So, what did the courtyard look like when completed and before the temporary work was torn up?  Below is an aerial image of the work. 

Can you guess what the image looks like from the correct perspective?  Please check back tomorrow.

Next Up:  The reveal