Trashing Louvre-Rivoli
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10/22/2009 01:12:00 AM.
The Apollo of Piombino in dialogue with cheap graffitis
It's time the Louvre-Rivoli station gets a make-over.
The lights are crappy, the smell in there is like hell and the exhibited copies from the Louvre's antiquities collection are in a state that's saddening beyond belief. That's the state the station has been in for quite some years now, but things start to look really ugly once the wall-covering stone panels started coming off and some lowbrow sunday-afternoon graffiti wannabees started to put uninspired tagings on the walls.
This view is quite interesting though, because the station was supposed to look like a museum gallery. Now it looks like an apocalyptic version of a museum gallery rather. I'm sure Hubert Robert must have dreamt up something similar when he got inspired to paint his "Grande Galerie en ruines".
The lights are crappy, the smell in there is like hell and the exhibited copies from the Louvre's antiquities collection are in a state that's saddening beyond belief. That's the state the station has been in for quite some years now, but things start to look really ugly once the wall-covering stone panels started coming off and some lowbrow sunday-afternoon graffiti wannabees started to put uninspired tagings on the walls.
This view is quite interesting though, because the station was supposed to look like a museum gallery. Now it looks like an apocalyptic version of a museum gallery rather. I'm sure Hubert Robert must have dreamt up something similar when he got inspired to paint his "Grande Galerie en ruines".
We're almost there, Hubert.
Labels: Art, Louvre, Nonsensical rambling, Underground transportation
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