Being in Paris this week I’ve discovered this great sculpture done by the French artist Fabien Chalon. In a way it summarize quite nicely what I have been talking about on the blog, the whole movement / inertia thing.
Located in the middle of Gare du Nord, the biggest train station in Europe, the sculpture called ‘Le monde en marche’ (the world in movement) gets to work every 30 minutes with a black and white film, a travelling ball and the sculpture in movement. You can watch the video below to see it working. The rest of the time, the sculpture doesn’t move but a massive video screen displays people passing by it.
I love the contrast between busy people walking in the station and the ones that take the time to stop and look at the world moving around them.
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