Ernesto Neto's installation at Pantheon
Some words from Katherine Converse - I was too overwhelmed to be very coherent :)
Ernesto Neto's
miraculous transformation
of the Pantheon, the classical bastion of French Culture, is not to be
missed! The monumental free-form, fabric installation is the perfect complement
to the cold, imposing, marble interior. Light, gauzy, pendulous blobs droop and
sway from the heights. Soft, organic shapes - as uplifting and soulful as
fantasy cobwebs - are the perfect antithesis to the stark, geometric space.
The duality of life-death, nature-culture, spirit-reason, laughter-silence play
back and forth as Foulcault's pendulum
swings silently in the center, leaving you with renewed philosophical
musings. A profoundly moving experience!


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