Sans titre
The untitled work (2013) was designed and created by the Dutch artist Pieter Vermeersch especially for the seafront façade of Galeries Lafayette in Biarritz.
Pieter Vermeersch's works for the public space can be interpreted as a contemporary variation on the "little yellow wall" of the famous View of Delft by the Flemish painter Johannes Vermeer, whose mysterious radiance over the city is described by Marcel Proust in his book À la recherche du temps perdu.
Pieter Vermeersch responded to the commission from Galeries Lafayette by imagining his own view of Biarritz and his coloured wall which, through its chromatic presence, radiates over the city. The starting point for this mural was a photograph of the city's sky at sunset. Composed of a hundred or so shades of colour, a piece of the sky is captured, suspended in the ochre environment of the Biarritz roofs. The image appears as a stolen piece of sky, which by its chromatic presence, radiates over the city.
Sans titre
2013
The starting point for this mural is a photograph of a sky at sunset, the image tilted to reduce the reading of the subject. This image without spatial reference provides a visual experience of the abstract, a mental image of the non-visible, or an echo of a beyond.
Through the hundreds of shades of colour that make up the image, which is part of the ochre environment of the roofs and buildings of Biarritz, the coloured panel facing the sea has an immaterial character that is reminiscent of the very special situation of the city of Biarritz, between sky and sea.
Work commissioned and produced by Citynove for Galeries Lafayette.
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