Convergence / Light architecture - Yann Kersalé
- On: 14.10.2008
- In: Grand Place, Brussels (Belgium)
Yann Kersalé's work on the Grand Place in Brussels
A light sculpture imagined by Yann Kersalé for the Grand Place.
Accessible to the public every night.
agenda
From October 14th
Practical
Grand Place in Brussels (outside, every night)
Light architecture
"Convergence
A 'grande place' (great square) with four doors, with four corners.
A great square of sky freed of all history, but bearing witness to all histories.
Whatever direction you may take to get to the Grand Place - North, South, West, East - you enter the enclosed space: a cobblestone surface, historic façade, the sky.
However enclosed you may be in this square, it inspires, it breaths quietness, calm, perhaps the scale? Perhaps the place?
The important thing is that you feel good there.
A kind of great ballroom of an unlikely castle whose ceiling is the sky, framed by richly carved facades.
It is this free space of sky that becomes the basic support of convergence, the point of departure of four entities consisting of dotted lines mingling against the background of a European sky.
As many dots as there are ideas, passions, thoughts coming from the four cardinal points to talk to each other, to unite, teach each other, meet…"
Yann Kersalé
In Vincennes, 31 January 2008
- Updated: 12.12.2008
