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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:13:53 GMT
The "Tour Paris 13" is considered to be the largest collective display of street art ever made, using all eleven floors of an apartment building and 36 flats of 4 or 5 rooms. Even though the outside of the building has had a striking display of art on it for many months, the project inside was completely confidential until it was finally ready this month. It opened to the public on October 1st and will close October 31st -- and the building is due to be demolished by the end of 2013. I had read alarming reports of the wait to get in -- 7 hours last weekend -- but I confidently went there around 13:00 on Tuesday when honest people are at work and students are in their courses. For security reasons, only 49 people may be inside the building at any time, and the basic estimation is that it takes about an hour to visit all of the floors. The building is along the Quai d'Austerlitz along the Seine, but far from the tourist zone, so how many people could be there on a Tuesday? Next time I would arrive much earlier, and there would be no problem, right?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:24:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:34:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:41:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:46:51 GMT
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Post by htmb on Oct 17, 2013 22:47:41 GMT
Surely I miscounted the number of hours you stood in line! 9:45 to 15:15? Amazing! What a good man.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:52:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:56:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 23:02:36 GMT
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Post by htmb on Oct 17, 2013 23:06:12 GMT
These paintings are wonderful, but oh my gosh, your photographs are phenomenal!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 23:08:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 23:12:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 23:16:50 GMT
And then I was back down to the ground floor. It was a shame to have to rush through so fast, but it was impossible not to think of the people waiting outside, who were only allowed inside when someone came out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 23:21:53 GMT
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Post by questa on Oct 17, 2013 23:57:21 GMT
Absolutely brilliant, K2, Your patience is applauded and your photos amazing. They are all here...the good, the bad and the ugly!
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Post by fumobici on Oct 18, 2013 5:23:56 GMT
Fantastic! I don't love everything, but it mostly succeeds brilliantly on its own terms as outsider art. I'd in fact rather see this than a typical display of contemporary art by esteemed and established professional artists who tend to be antiseptically bland (while trying to sell some ambiguous conceptual "edginess") so as not to offend their wealthy patrons. The level of craft here ranges from meh to very fine indeed. I do wonder how the artists scrape together a living and hope that they were paid a fair amount for their time. It depresses me to think these talented artists might be doing this with no compensation at all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 6:13:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 15:49:37 GMT
Astonishing. So much imagination has gone into the creating of the paintings/graffiti. Somehow I can only imagine this kind of art being displayed in Paris.
I wonder what will eventually happen to the building?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2013 16:27:51 GMT
It's supposed to be a pile of rubble before the end of the year.
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Post by mossie on Oct 19, 2013 13:02:14 GMT
Thank you so much for your time and patience to bring us this wonderful display. These so called graffiti scrawlers are real artists displaying more ability than many so called artists.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2013 15:15:42 GMT
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Post by jessica1992 on Oct 20, 2013 19:02:45 GMT
[Thank you for taking the time to post these wonderful pictures and information. I have been trying to find an English site, so thanks for the link. I am bringing my daughter at the weekend to see the building. We are travelling from Newcastle Upon Tyne. :)
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2013 19:12:53 GMT
Mind boggling! This is not only in Maritime Museum, it is a museum of urban art. I can't believe you stood in line all that time, but am certainly glad you did.
My favorites are the doors stuck to the walls, the face/hand portrait across two walls, and the beautiful fake calligraphy on the glass pane.
Any idea why the building is being torn down? Obviously the artists weren't too kind to it, plus it has outmoded fixtures. But it must be structurally sound or they wouldn't be allowing all those people to tromp through it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2013 19:33:37 GMT
Frankly, I was amazed (and thrilled) that the elevator was still in service, because after waiting all of those hours to get in, I was not looking forward to climbing 9 flights of stairs.
It is just outdated, probably contains asbestos, and more money can be made out of a new waterfront replacement building. But I don't know what they plan to build there.
I doubt that they will be imploding the building, so I guess they will just gnaw at it with jackhammers or whatever from the top down.
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Post by lugg on Oct 21, 2013 10:41:36 GMT
I am sure that I will return to this again and again , as there is just so much to take in. Many are wonderful examples of art of this type , the 3D effects in some are outstanding. I was trying to work out the stairwell image - is the face/ body in the bottom painted on the floor ? I wonder what the remaining residents think, lets hope they have a rapid entry pass
Thank you for being so determined to see this and then to show it to us.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 12:07:11 GMT
I think the face was a real person looking up the stairwell at the same time I was looking down.
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Post by fgrsk8r1970 on Oct 21, 2013 21:19:52 GMT
Absolutely fantastic report Kerouac!!! I can't decide what's my favorite but I liked the "TRON" inspired theme in #7 - but also the basement black lit one! Oh and the one with the cats (right after the Coca Cola sign)!! Thank you so much - that is really amazing and a shame it'll be demolished.
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Post by htmb on Oct 22, 2013 2:35:21 GMT
I have to think the impermanence of it all, the frenetic feeling I get in regards to the artists, and the visitors standing in line for hours, come together to make the work even more appealing.
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Post by woody77 on Oct 24, 2013 8:40:40 GMT
Wow!!
I wish I had the time (and the fortitude) to go see that. I might go swing by the building itself to take some photos outside (the large insect that I saw in one of your photos is, I think, by a relatively famous street artist).
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Post by fgrsk8r1970 on Oct 25, 2013 13:27:56 GMT
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