After Olympia

Anthony Caro created this monumental work in 1985 following a trip to Greece. He was inspired by the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, whose triangular comp ...
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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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Bas-relief en cuivre

When RATP asked Maurice Legendre to create a bas-relief to decorate the Grande Arche de La Défense RER station, he took the opposite tack to a long format. The artwo ...
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Boréale

Inaugurated in 1970 for the Grande Arche La Défense RER station, Boréale is a large stainless steel bas-relief. The artwork is 3 metres high (in keeping with the dim ...
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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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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 Ronde des manches à air

For this artwork, the artist has chosen to follow the contour of the crater, a real passageway for users of the La Défense site, to draw a 30.56 m circle just above ...
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Les points de mire

Based on the principle of pixel-by-pixel relief, this bas-relief in moulded white concrete plays with the multiple transcriptions of the full and the empty, of what ...
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Personnages fantastiques

This strange duo of half-fantastic, half-familiar characters in bright colours (blue, yellow and red) marks, from its twelve metres high, the entrance to Westfield L ...
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Point Growth

Since October 2007, this sculpture has been installed at the foot of the Opus 12 tower after being exhibited on the Parvis de La Défense. Offered to the developer by ...
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Rythmes

For this interchange hall at the Grande Arche La Défense RER station, the artist designed, as early as 1970, two aluminium reliefs of 40 sq.m. each located above exi ...
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Traits d’union

A wall of light in an underground den. The artistic audacity of this idea is obvious to passers-by at the Grande Arche de La Défense RER station. They discover a ran ...
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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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Volutes en gerbes

Designed to be used as a covering for a technical sheath, this glass paste mosaic is developed on a polyhedron. The design takes shape from panel to panel until the ...
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