Timelapse footage exhibits Paris’ oldest bridge being remodeled in a single day into a large inflatable cave construction.
The Seventeenth-century Pont Neuf bridge is a well-known landmark spanning the River Seine, however was left virtually unrecognisable to Parisians on Thursday.
Titled ‘La Caverne’ or ‘The Cave’, it was created by French artist Jene-René – higher identified by his pseudonym JR. It is the newest in a sequence of huge scale artwork installations throughout the town, measuring 120m in size and starting from 12-18m in peak.
Chatting with AP Information, JR mentioned he wished the piece, which opens to the general public on 6 June, to “juxtapose the tough and the wild with the refined magnificence of Paris”.
“There’s additionally a form of unknown,” he added, “of concern, of coming into right into a cave – and on the similar time, a fascination.”
The set up, as soon as opened, will run till 28 June.