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Parisian RER Train Transformed into Palace of Versailles ReplicaI wish I could have ride one of these beautiful redecorated RER C during my Paris trip. A rail journey fit for a king with this Ambient Marketing project by Encore Eux Agency transforming a Parisian train into a moving replica of the Chateau de Versailles. Ornate paintings and golden sculptures line the
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Modern Art at VersaillesI thought I’d do a piece on the incredible modern art collection at Le Chateau de Versailles. I have always had an affinity to the beautiful juxtaposition of old and new living together symbiotically, creating imagery that evokes memory through history and emotion, and hope through a context of new creative thought processes. Placing a
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Bernar Venet At Le Château de VersaillesBernar Venet is the new contemporary artist invited by Le Château de Versailles near Paris for 2011. Bernar Venet is a 70 years old french minimal artist based in New York but not so famous in Paris. After the controversy with Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami last year, Venet is not creating such a polemic [...]
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Takashi Murakami at Le Château de VersaillesAfter Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009 the Château de Versailles invites world famous Japanese artist Takashi Murakami to make his mark in 2010. Murakami wanted to create a bridge between the symbolic occidental classic art and the most contemporary art, a “bridge between past and future”. Here is in exclusivity, the [...]