Araignée Rouge

This imposing sculpture (stable in the words of its author, as opposed to mobile) in steel weighs 75 tons and is 15 meters high. It evokes a famous artwork by the sa ...
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Cheminée végétalisée

As soon as it was built in the 1970s, the utilitarian ventilation chimney in the basement of the Esplanade was frescoed. However, its concept ended up becoming anach ...
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Dame Lune

Dame Lune [Lady Moon] sketches her unusual silhouette in a monolithic block of Carrara marble. Her exclamation point-shaped attitude calls out to the passer-by, intr ...
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Fontaine monumentale

Located in the centre of the Esplanade de La Défense, Agam's Fontaine monumentale [Monumental fountain] was designed as a spectacular, neighbourhood-scale artwork. I ...
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Fragments du Mur de Berlin

This piece of wall, acquired by the City of Courbevoie and the Epad, was part of the 250 segments of the Berlin Wall put up for auction. Covered with period tags and ...
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La Défense de Paris

This patriotic statue, which replaced the statue of Napoleon I, removed from its base in 1848, was first erected on 12 October 1883 at the La Défense roundabout in f ...
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La Défonce

Produced as part of a public commission from the Ministry of Culture, this artwork is astonishing in its brutality, summed up humorously in its title in the form of ...
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La Fontaine des Corolles

"Take advantage of the opportunity you are given to express something," is how Louis Leygue described poetry. This principle applied to art allowed him to ...
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Le Grand Toscano

At the foot of the Areva Tower, set on a granite pavement, stands since 1983 the bronze bust of a truncated giant, which is reminiscent of the statues bequeathed to ...
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Le sculpteur de nuages

With its theme, its inimitable style and the dazzling strength of the colours, this fresco perfectly symbolises the artist's fantastic world. It was created in 1969, ...
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Les Trois Arbres

This ceramic mosaic is distinguished by its size, which is in line with the dimensions of the ventilation chimney for which it is intended. It is 28.50 metres high a ...
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Lieux du corps

This work, made of polyester resin, has been visible in Place de la Coupole since 1983. With its organic forms, it refers to the imaginary, drawing its sources, in p ...
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Oiseau mécanique

An emblematic sculpture in the artist's artwork, the Oiseau mécanique, with its surprising aspects, seems to have come straight out of his imagination. Its stainless ...
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Vive le vent

How can certain essential urban functions be diverted into artistic media? In 1986, Michel Deverne gave a brilliant demonstration of this by decorating the ventilati ...
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