Some of our favorite art experiences are ones that surround us. An experience that becomes more than walking around a gallery and stopping at paintings, photos, and installations is a breath of fresh air. It’s transformative and creates wonder wherever you walk. When the space you’re walking becomes something new it keeps you on your toes--experiencing art becomes about more than just your sense of sight. The Grand Palais in Paris has been home to some of the strangest, most colorful, and awe-inspiring installations in the world. Starting this week the Grand Palais will experience another transformation--one that creates a bright, candy-coated environment.

Thanks to French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, the Grand Palais has become a forest of color and light. Suspended on stalks as tall as trees are huge rainbow disks filtering in the light from the Grand Palais ceiling. These eight foot high disks bathe the ceiling and floor in a colorful light. Each disk is one of the three primary colors--red, green, or blue. These colors dance and combine in different ways on the ground, creating a really unique experience to those walking through.

 

 

Buren has called this installation Excentrique(s) and it is an answer to the challenge of Monumenta, an art project that dares artists to transform some major French monuments. Though the challenge has been going on for five years, each installation has inspired wonder and created environments we’ve never seen before. This year’s installation is no different, and those lucky enough to be in Paris can experience it first hand from now until June 21, 2012!

 

 

[Via My Modern Met ]