After an intense week, Kalissa, Neesha, Moira, Courtney and I decided to spend a more exhausting weekend in Paris. Even there were a lot of things that we couldn’t have done due to the short time of our stay, the trip was definitely worth it.
The highlight of the trip for me was the visit to the Foundation Louis Vuitton, designed by Frank Gehry. The most famous work from him has to be the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. The opening of this Museum had brought a huge economic and cultural revitalization to the city Bilbao, and this phenomenon is known as the Bilbao effect. Gehry’s success in his works made me want to see the Foundation Louis Vuitton in person so bad when I was in Paris. And we finally made it.
The Foundation Loius Vuitton was opened in the year 2014 and located next to the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris. The placement of the building was in the middle of one of the biggest natural attraction of the city. The luxurious look of the Foundation gives an interesting industrialized touch to the Bois de Boulogne Park. But the reflection of the natural landscape from the building also works well in neutralized this industrial interaction with nature.
The exhibition of the Foundation Louis Vitton consists of two parts: half of the permanent exhibition about the architecture of the Foundation itself and the other half was some temporary exhibitions with some museum collections of modern art exhibitions.
The combination of the building and art collections is also a highlight for the Foundation. For example, Olafur Eliasson’s work Inside the Horizon created a particular interactive space with illuminated yellow columns for the public in a walkway.
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