Perhaps the golden tires, like these projects, will put the Opera Garnier in the spotlight again. Pei pyramid, the Palais- Royal and the Colonnes de Buren, and now possibly an old Notre Dame with a modern spin. Look at the combination of the Louvre Palace and the I.M. Parisians of course give a chilly reception to every artistic or architectural version of “old meets new.” It’s always the same dance in Paris - initial repulsion and controversy and then eventually an embrace of the city’s très chic avant garde nature. The 17th century Palais-Royal decorated with the Colonnes du Buren Lévêque says the tires were chosen “because they galvanize, for me, the organic and mechanic aspect of the symmetrical, ornamentally-charged architecture of the Palais Garnier, which is a call for performances.” I guess the theory is that the contrast between old and new, continuity and rupture, makes the opera house more synergistically striking. That piece had trouble finding a home and is finally in the Petit Palais’s gardens. It’s been scathingly compared to pop artist Jeff Koons’ hated Bouquet de Tulipes sculpture. Les Saturnales isn’t very popular so far. It’s different, isn’t it? Two pieces of golden farm equipment that look like wreaths or diadems. He was given a carte blanche commission to create a piece to celebrate the opera’s 350th anniversary. On December 30, 2018, a new modern art installation by Claude Lévêque was placed atop the Grand Staircase, called Les Saturnales, or the Golden Tires. Decades after The Dance and Chagall’s ceiling, there’s another scandal. If you thought the opera had seen enough controversy, think again. The Golden Tires: A Controversial Art Installation When the opera was finally inaugurated in 1875, the public saw the showy facade for the first time.Ĭlaude Lévêque’s installation Les Saturnales © C. His terse response was that it was “in the Napoleon style, Madame.” Louis XIV style was passé.ĭuring construction, the opera facade was kept under wraps, to build tension. Even Empress Eugenie asked Garnier what style he was aiming for. Garnier’s plan was mocked as a labyrinth, a turkish bath, and wedding cake. Everyone felt entitled to weigh in on the splashy new place. The tank’s also used for Paris firefighters to practice nighttime swimming.Ĭonstruction of the Paris Opera was also controversial. Even today, the cistern halts the rising water, though water still needs to be pumped out. They created a stone cistern - an artificial lake - for the water and underground tunnels, as a work around. In 1962, the builders discovered a lake underneath the site. The sculptures on the Paris Opera, labeled.
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