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Art and locations in Paris
Below is a presentation of the public artwork, architecture and notable locations shown Psi.
They are ordered following an optimal travel itinerary, starting at the most Western location. 

Le pouce
César Baldaccini

Le Pouce (The Thumb) is a 12-meter high, 18-ton monumental bronze mould of artist César Baldaccini's thumb. César made the first cast of his thumb in 1965 for a Parisian art gallery; it was 40cm high and was in pink translucent plastic. The huge success of this original work encouraged César to reproduce his thumb in different sizes, colors and materials (others can be found around the world in Marseille, Koblenz, Seoul, etc.). This larger version was commissioned by  EPAD (Etablissement Public pour l’Aménagement de la Défense - a public organization managing the whole business district) and  unveiled on June 16, 1994.
César created this sculpture from an enlarged molding of his own thumb using the 3-D pantographic technique. The pantorgaph is an instrument that allows to reproduce volumes at any scale while maintaining the proportions between the original and its copy. As such, the enlargement of the fingerprints and skin details is so precise that we clearly distinguish all the anatomical details of the thumb.
César Baldaccini (1921 – 1998) was a noted French sculptor. He was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects.
Place Carpeaux
92800 Puteaux

   

Tindaro, Igor Mitoraj

This massive bronze sculpture represents Tyndareus, who in Greez mythology was a Spartan king. The sculpture was erected in 1997 in front of the KPMG building, but was removed in 2015.
​Igor Mitoraj (1944 – 2014) was a Polish-French artist born in Germany. Mitoraj's sculptural style is rooted in the classical tradition with its focus on the torso. However, Mitoraj introduced a post-modern twist with ostentatiously truncated limbs, emphasizing the damage sustained by most genuine classical sculptures. As he put it, “I feel that a piece of arm or a leg speak far more strongly than a whole body.” Many of his sculptures can be found in public places across the USA, Europe and Japan.
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L'Araignée Rouge, 
Alexander Calder 

L’Araignée Rouge, which is French for The Red Spider, is a monumental sculpture (called a Mobile by Calder in contrast to his Stabiles) which was erected in 1976 (the year of Calder's death) in the business district of La Défense. It was commissioned in 1974 by EPAD as part of it's strategy to host public artwork from major international artists. The Red Spider is 15 meters high, 25 meters long and weighs more than 60 tons.  It is composed of six vertical panels which were assembled on site, the bolts being designed by Calder himself. Like many of Calder's works, it was manufactured by Etablissements Biemont in Tours. The artist supervised all stages of production and installation, chosing also the location where it would be installed. It was renovated in 2017.
​Alexander Calder (1898 –1976) was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. Calder’s monumental stationary sculptures are called stabiles. In 1987, the Calder Foundation was established by Calder's family. The foundation "is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder and is charged with an unmatched collection of his works."

¤Other work in Psi: "Four Arches" in Los Angeles & "Homage to Jerusalem" in Jerusalem
7 Place de la Défense,
92974 Paris La Defense











Fragment of the Berlin Wall
This 3.2 meter fragment of the Berlin Wall was bought by the city of Courbevoie and the EPAD in 1990 and installed in 1996 outside La Couple gallery in the La Défense neighborhood. After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, parts of the wall were auctioned off and some can be found in public places around the world. Such as:
  • Paris:  Esplanade of the 9th of November 1989, Porte de Versailles.
  • London: in Grosvenor Square; in the National Army Museum; in the German School; in the Imperial War Museum;  in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park.
  • Israel: Ein Hod Artists' Village, Israel., at the Dada Museum, village center.
  • Los Angeles: at The Variety Buildin on 5900 Wilshere; at the Loyola Marymount University.
1 Rond-Point de la Défense, 92400 Courbevoie

Les Coquelicots
Catherine Feff

Les coqueliquots (the Poppys) is a 30-meter long, 3-meter high mural representing a field of poppys by French artist Catherine Feff. The wall borders a access ramp to the Coupole square in front of the Exaltis tower. 
Catherine Feff is a French artist whose studio is in Courbevoie. She has been working for over 30 years, making a name for herself mainly in the field of trompe-l'oeil, installing massive canvases over buiidlings under construction or being renovated.
 Pl. Jean Millier,
​92400 Courbevoie

 

   

Point Growth
Lim Dong-Lak

Point Growth is a stainless steel & bronze sculpture by South Corean sculptor Lim Dong-Lak, created in 1999 as part of his Poetic Totem series, and donated to La Défense in 2006 for the 120th anniversary of the treaty of friendship and commerce between France and South Korea. It represents a young tree growing out of a globe.
Lim Dong-Lak (born 1954) is a South Corean sculptor. His view of the world is marked by Taoism, questioning of the natural order of things, looking for the universe beyond human perception.
1 Place de la Pyramide,
92911 Paris La Défense

Doubles lignes indéterminées
Bernar Venet

Doubles lignes indéterminées (Two Indeterminate Lines) is a muonumental, 12 by 10 meter, 16-ton steel art installation by French conceptual artist Bernar Venet.  It is made of square tubes of painted steel which have been worked in such a way as to give the impression of solid bars which have been twisted, hammered and bent into shape. It was commissioned by the EPAD at the end of the 1980s and installed in 1988.
During his career, Venet experimented with randomness and many other painted steel works can be found in galleries, collections and parks throughout the world, including Nice, Strasbourg, Berlin and San Fransisco.  ​
Bernar Venet (born 1941) is a French conceptual artist who has exhibited his works in various locations around the world. In the 1960s he was close to the New Realists, including César and Arman. ​In 2005, Venet received the title of Chevalier de La Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour. 
1 place costes et bellonte, 92270 bois-colombe

   

   
LE JARDIN D'ACCLIMATATION
The Jardin d'Acclimatation is a 19-hectare (47-acre) children's amusement park with the Exploradrôme museum, the enchanted river ride and other attractions located in the northern part of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. It is a popular destination for families and tourists. A replica of the Hollywood sign can be found along one of the paths in the park.
 Rue du Bois de Boulogne 75116 Paris

The Statue of Liberty Replica
​F. A. Bartholdi & G. Eiffel

A 22-meter quarter scale replica of the famous Statue of Liberty (really called Liberty Enlightening the World, La Liberté éclairant le monde) stands at the southern tip of the Cygnes island of Paris.  The original Statue of Liberty, dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman godess. She holds a torch above her head and in her left arm carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. The replica in Paris was inaugurated by President Marie François Sadi Carnot on 4 July 1889, only three years after its US counterpart, and was given to the city of Paris by the Parisian community in America to mark the centennial of the French Revolution. The tablet in her left hand bears the inscription IV Juillet 1776 = XIV Juillet 1789, recognizing the American Independence Day and the French Bastille Day.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834 – 1904) was a French sculptor. Some of his works can be found in Washington D.C. and Boston.
Gustave Eiffel (1832 –1923) was a French civil engineer and architect, most famous for the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.
île aux Cygnes, 75015 Paris

     

   

Armillary Sphere of Place Dupleix

By the Dupleix Square in the 15th arrondissement of Paris is a large 4-meter-diameter armillary sphere that was made in 1991 by French sculptor Alain le Boucher. It has two rings: the meridian and the equator. The circles are graded on the inside: the equator measures time and the meridian has degrees. Unfortunately, the world axis that held planet Earth in the center of the sphere has disappeared. Alain le Boucher's work often centers around astronomy and the use of light.
Place Dupleix, 75015 Paris

The Symbolic Globe
Erik Reitzel

The Symbolic Globe is a monument located since November 1995 in the piazza of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, surrounded by the flags of all nations. The word "symbol" comes from the old Greek symbolon, which means sign or token. In ancient Greece, when friends separated, the host would break an object and give a piece of it to each guest. When they met again, each one would bring his/her fragment and put the object back together again. This idea of sharing and friendship would then be perpetuated during the United Nations Summit in Copenhagen in 1950. The 10.000 delegates, originating from all the countries of the world, would each receive a symbolon enabling them to put together a lasting structure: the Symbolic Globe. The structure was then later moved to Paris.
Erik Reitzel (1941 - 2012) was a Danish civil engineer who for many years was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the Technical University of Denmark. He has recieved several prizes for his research and work on architectural minimal structures, as well as for interesting and original solutions to major engineering projects. He was awarded the Légion d’honneur by the French president Mitterrand. 
7 Place de Fontenoy,
​75007 Paris

   

   

Homage to Sibelius
Eila Hiltunen

The work "Homage to Sibelius" is a small-scale model of the Sibelius Monument by the same artist inaugurated in Helsinki (Finland) in 1967. As the last and definitive model, it is the one from which measurements were taken for the final work. It can be found in one of the interior patios of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Another smaller version stands on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Eila Hiltunen (1922 – 2003) was a Finnish sculptor.  Eila finished her high school during the war, studied sculpture at The Finnish Art Academy and twice won the top academic prize for sculpture before graduation. Her 1970s travels to the Middle East, resulting in major public works in Teheran and Jeddah, combined fairy-tale luxury and adventure in cultures unused to female independence.
¤Other work in Psi: "Sibelius Monument" in Helsinki
7 Place de Fontenoy,
​75007 Paris

La Fontaine des Quatre Parties du Monde
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

This monumental fountain by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was dedicated in 1874 in the Jardin Marco Polo, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde means "The Fountain of the Four Parts of the World" - each part of the world is embodied by its female figures, representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 – 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III. The sculptor Eugène Legrain (1837–1915), a student of Carpeaux, was commissioned to make the sphere, and the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, made the horses in the basin around the statue.
Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75006, Paris

   

La Gloriette de Buffon
Edme Verniquet

The gloriette of Buffon is an iron and bronze garden porch created by Edme Verniquet and erected in the botanical gardens of Paris, le Jardin des Plantes. It is located on top of a little hill and in the center of a maze, and topped with an armillary sphere. Built between 1786 and 1788, it is one of the oldest entirely metallic structures in the world. It is named after Georges-Louis Leclerc, count of Buffon (1707-1788),  an important French mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and philosopher. He was an important part of the Enlightenment, responsible for the science and nature parts of the Encyclopédie. His theories influenced generations of naturalists such as Lamarck and Darwin.
Edme Verniquet (1727-1804) was a French arhitect. After meeting Buffon, he wroked on the planning of the royal botanical gardens (the now Jardin des Plantes). ​
57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris

La fontaine St-Michel
G. Davioud & F. Duret

The Fontaine Saint-Michel is a monumental fountain located in Place Saint-Michel in the 5th arrondissement in Paris. It was constructed in 1858–1860 during the French Second Empire by the architect Gabriel Davioud. The fontaine Saint-Michel was part of the great project for the reconstruction of Paris overseen by Baron Haussmann during the French Second Empire. In 1855 Haussmann completed an enormous new boulevard, originally called boulevard de Sébastopol-rive-gauche, now called Boulevard Saint-Michel, which opened up the small place Pont-Saint-Michel into a much larger space. In 1858 Davioud proposed that the central figure be the Archangel Michael wrestling with the devil. The figure of Saint Michael and the devil was made by Francisque-Joseph Duret.
Gabriel Davioud (1824 –1881) was a French architect. As a colleague of the urban planner Baron Haussmann, he designed much of the characteristic Parisian street furniture: benches, pavilions, bandstands, fountains, lampposts, signposts, fences and balustrades, jetties, monuments, as well as a number of landmark buildings.
Francisque Joseph Duret (1804 –1865) was a French sculptor. He received the medal of honor in 1855, was an Officer in the Legion of Honor, and was made a member of the Institut de France. 
Place Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris

    

Vénus des Arts 
Arman   

La Vénus des Arts (The Venus of the Arts) is a bronze sculpture by French artist Arman made in 1992 and established close to the Beaux-Arts of Paris. 
It is illustration of art in all its forms, represented by an assembly of various slices of a feminine body with elements of different arts: a cello, a painting frame and books.  Her face is the result of interlacing two different faces: the Venus de Milo and a Benin bronze. Arman thus mixes traditional African and modern European facial archetypes. ​
Arman (1928 – 2005), whose full name was Armand Fernandez, was a French-born American artist. He moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave ("cachet", "allures d'objet") to using them as the painting itself. He is best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects.
¤Other artwork in Psi: L'Heure de tous, in Paris (see above)
10 rue Jacques-Callot,
​75006 Paris

Sépharades
​Pol Bury

Sépharades are two fountains by Pol Bury installed since 1985 in the Cours d'Orléans courtyard within the Palais-Royal palace in Paris. They are each an conglomeration of stainless steel globes.
Pol Bury (1922 – 2005) was a Belgian sculptor and painter. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco. In 1985,  Bury received Paris's Grand Prix National de Sculpture (National Grand Prize for Sculpture).
​8 Rue de Montpensier, 75001 Paris
   
   

Louvre Pyramid,
I. M. Pei

The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark of the city of Paris. The structure, which was constructed entirely with glass segments, and metal poles reaches a height of 21.6 metres (71 ft). Its square base has sides of 34 metres (112 ft) and a base surface area of 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.
Ieoh Ming Pei, (born 1917), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese-American architect. Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979. In 1983, he won the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture.
Musée du Louvre
75001 Paris

La pyramide inversée

La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid) is a skylight constructed in the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall in front of the Louvre Museum in France. It may be thought of as a smaller sibling of the more famous Louvre Pyramid, yet turned upside down: its upturned base is easily seen from outside. Directly below the tip of the downwards-pointing glass pyramid, a small stone pyramid (about 1 m, 3.3 ft) is stationed on the floor.
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an architectural firm based in New York City, with major projects in more than a hundred cities around the world Its work is noted for excellence in design.
99 Rue de Rivoli 
75001 Paris
   
   

Thésée Combattant le Minautore
Jules Ramey

Thésée Combattant le Minautore  (Theseus fighting the Minotaure) is a marble sculpture that is located in the Tuileries Gardens (Jardins des Tuileries) in front of the Louvre palace. It was made by Jules Ramey between 1821 and 1827 and placed in the gardens in 1832. It represents Greek mythical king Theseus battling with the Minotaur, a mythical creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man that dwelt at the center of a labyrinth. Jules Ramey (1796 – 1852) was French sculptor.
113 Rue de Rivoli,
​75001 Paris

(Placé) sur un point fixe
​(Pris) depuis un point fixe n° 717
Lawrence Weiner

(Placé) sur un point fixe (Pris) depuis un point fixe. no 717 (in English: (Put) on a Fixed Point (Taken) from a Fixed Point no 717) is a work by American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. It was made in 1992 and placed in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris 2000.

Lawrence Weiner (born 1942) is one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. Weiner is regarded as a founding figure of Postminimalism's Conceptual art. For him, written words are the best form of presentation of his work. Weiner formulated his "Declaration of Intent" in 1968:
  1. The artist may construct the piece.
  2. The piece may be fabricated.
  3. The piece need not be built.
Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership."
113 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris

   

L’Heure de tous, Arman

L'heure de tous is a sculpture by French artist Arman that is located in the Havre court (Court du Havre) in front of the St Lazare train station in Paris. It was made in 1985 and is a series of accumulated bronze clocks.
Arman (1928 – 2005), whose full name was Armand Fernandez, was a French-born American artist. He moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave ("cachet", "allures d'objet") to using them as the painting itself. He is best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects.
¤Other artwork in Psi: Vénus des Arts in Paris (see above)
4 Rue d'Amsterdam,
75009 Paris

Le Passe-Muraille
​Jean Marais

Le Passe-muraille, translated as The passer-through-walls or The Man Who Walked through Walls, is a bronze statue representing a man half trapped in a stonewall that can be found in the Montmartre area of Paris. It was created in 1989 by French actor and sculptor Jean Marais (1913-1998) in order to pay tribute to Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), a popular French novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Le Passe-Muraille is the hero of one of Marcel Aymé’s novels: his real name, Mr Dutilleul, was a modest clerk working in an obscure ministry department who discovered one day that he could walk through walls.
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, also known as Jean Marais (1913 –1998), was a French actor, writer, director and sculptor. He performed in over 100 films and was the muse of acclaimed director Jean Cocteau. In 1996, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to French Cinema. 
Place Marcel Aymé, 75018 Paris

    

La Géode
A. Fainsilber, G. Chamayou 

La Géode is a mirror-finished geodesic dome that holds an Omnimax theatre in the Parc de la Villette at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (City of Science and Industry) in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed by architect Adrien Fainsilber and engineer Gérard Chamayou. It is 36 metres (118 ft) in diameter, composed of 6,433 polished stainless steel equilateral triangles that form the sphere that reflects the sky. It stands on a reinforced concrete based, which is attached to Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the largest science museum in Europe. La Géode officially opened on May 6, 1985.
Adrien Fainsilber (born 1932) is a french architect and urban panner.
Gérard Chamayou (born 1929) is a french artist and engineeer.
26 Avenue Corentin Cariou, 75019 Paris

Jardein de la Treille

The Jardin de la Treille is a vineyard themed garden which is part of the Parc de la Villette in Paris. It is one of several themed gardens within the park. It was designed by Gilles Vexlard in 1988 with elements by Jean-Max Albert and Laurence Vacherot.
Gilles Vexlard is a French landscape architect.
Laurence Vacherot is a French landscape architect.
Jean-Max Albert is a French painter, sculptor, writer and musician.
Parc de la Villette
​75019 Paris

Le jardin des miroirs,
​Bernard Tschumi

​The Jardin des miroirs (the Garden of mirrors) is a garden designed by Bernard Tschumi and part of the Villette Parc in Paris. It was designed in 1983. Bernard Tschumi (born  1944) is an architect, writer and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. He works and lives in New York City and Paris. Tschumi has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, Princeton University, and Columbia University where he was Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1988 to 2003.
Parc de la Villette
​75019 Paris


Twisted Lampost Star
Mark Handforth

Twisted Lamppost Star is a monumental sculpture by American artist Mark Handforth. It was installed along the tramway line in 2012. The mast is twisted into a pentagram, the last line branching out into five smaller branches, each holding little lights.
Mark Handforth (born 1969) is an American sculptor. Often focusing on large-scale sculpture, Handforth’s work reflects objects from public spaces—street signs, fluorescent lights, street lamps, and traffic cones. These objects are then altered as Handforth twists and bends them, covers some with wax from burning candles or dripping paint.  In 2003, he created Lamppost, which was installed at the Doris Freedman Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, and was the first of many outdoor works in his series of twisted and bent lampposts. 
Place de la Porte de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris