The Art Museum invites Justin Weiler to take over the glass space in front of the museum. Creating a dialogue between the street and the museum, Justin Weiler has designed an installation composed of glass panels coloured by multiple slow and meticulous applications of paint and ink.
The space’s materiality – now associated with the materiality of the sculpture – merges to form a whole that summons light – whether it is the direct rays of the sun, the infinitely varied shades of clouds, or the nighttime electric light of street lamps or the moon.
After using domestic and urban materials like store blinds and iron curtains to explore the potentiality of black, Weiler now experiments with the delicate power of colour, always working in layers and superimpositions.
Through a repeated gesture, he has created a sensorial work that constantly changes depending on the time of day and the viewer’s perspective.
Justin Weiler was born 1990 and lives between Paris and Nantes.
He also created an artist-designed room at Hôtel de France in Nantes as part of the 2019 edition of Le Voyage à Nantes.
See the hotel room
10 Rue Georges Clemenceau, 44000 Nantes
How to get there?
Parking(s) nearby: Parking Cathédrale, Parking Gare Château
Public transport: Trébuchet, Foch-Cathédrale, Foch - Cathédrale, St-Clément
Self-service bicycles: Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Foch (n°32), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Jardin des plantes (n°63), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Saint clément (n°64), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Duchesse anne (n°49), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Verdun (n°48), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Gare de nantes nord (n°60), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Strasbourg (n°3), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Cours sully (n°65), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Hôtel de ville (n°2), Station Naolib Vélo libre-service Gare de nantes nord 2 (n°62)
Closed today.
Lift to the museum forecourt.
