PERGOLA
LE HAVRE (NORMANDY), FRANCE

PERGOLA

LE HAVRE (NORMANDY), FRANCE

Project
Installation at Le Havre City Hall

Client
Arts Le Havre biennale d'art contemporain

Year
2006

Status
Built

For the inaugural year of Le Havre’s Contemporary Art Biennale, we designed a pop art piece for the City Hall’s grand pergola. Pergola is a tribute to Le Havre-born Monet, forefather of impressionism: 90,000 plastic balls are arranged into an image of the wisteria blooms that figure in many of the artist’s oeuvres. The balls come in five tones - an abstracted impressionist palette – and climb towards the abundant sunlight, creating an exuberant play of colour, light and shadows underneath. As with many of our projects, the deliberate insertion of the artificial shakes up preconceived ideas – but the installation also aims, more simply, to delight visitors.

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Credits
1. Jacques Perron, May 2006
2. Montage, CCAPI (Annie Ypperciel), May 2006
3. Jacques Perron, May 2006
4. Inspiration, Jardin de Giverny by Claude Monet, 1900
5. Inspiration : Garden of Dubarton Oaks, Washington D.C., U.S.A.,
CCAPI (Claude Cormier), May 2005
6. CCAPI (Annie Ypperciel), May 2006
7. Jacques Perron, May 2006
8. Jacques Perron, May 2006
9. Jacques Perron, May 2006
10. Jacques Perron, May 2006
11. Jacques Perron, May 2006
12. Plan, CCAPI, May 2006