Art in the City - 🚋Tramway Line1
1h 26mn · Easy. · 12 steps
In 2004, the Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte d’Azur launched an international competition led by François Barré.
It is a prestigious and reasoned program of ordering original works of art around the creation of the Nice Côte d’Azur tram with internationally renowned artists and young artists with talent to discover.
This project contributes to the desire for transformation, modernization, urban beautification and cultural democratization of this rapidly changing territory, marked for more than a century by a strong artistic presence.
With the redevelopment of its emblematic public spaces (historical places, new neighborhoods and major arteries) and the installation of the tram, the Community of Agglomeration Nice Côte d’Azur has embarked on a dynamic of modernity and
seduction.
4 axes constituted the command: Nightscape, A diurnal landscape, a major urban room and a red thread on the track.
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Solar disc of Angel Leccia
5mn
The works of Ange Leccia constantly question the various media they put into play, combining them, opposing them, showing them through a thematic range such as the sea and other fascinating atmospheric elements because of their rhythmic character. So he chose the sun, a predominant element of the South, to "light"
Station Comte de Falicon. Ange Leccia uses the filmed image in a preponderant way (he has made many films since 1971) or photographic: idleness, photocopies, cuts, tears... These “ Arrangements” are thought of as cinematic moments, He re-conducts them, re-created them and this metamorphosis of the image gives all his power to the imagination. Paradoxically, the “pictures” he creates reveal a profound desire for spectacle.
THE ARTIST
To meet the elements: The Comte de Falicon building takes its place between water, earth and sky. Located in front of the sea, like a monolith, it rises out of earth to heaven. The reconstituted sun that will deploy on its glass facade will be added to these three natural elements. Symbol of the city of the sun: Nice being seen as one of the most sunny cities of the hexagon, a city of light, it is self-evident that the building will metamorphose the night that came, in a luminous anchorage, a central lighthouse, so that the city continues to be radiant. During the day, architecture will capture and assemble the rays of the sun. In twilight with the darkness that will be installed, the building will awaken, animate and restore the beauty, vitality and poetry of this sun that will have shone during the day and whose building will be nourished.
Concept:
👉A gaseous ball produces chromatic, total or partial variations, monochrome or multi chromatic, the rhythm and amplitude of variations participate in the production of effects. The effects move on the surface.
👉Research on effects of colors in “appeor” (gas effects in perpetual transformation without frank disappearance)
👉 horizontal and axial effect line
👉the effects come from the supposed depth.