A room to change the world
28/03/2012
What could be more moving for a ‘work seeker’ than to discover a work in progress? To follow its daily emergence from nothing, its victory over emptiness? Jean de Loisy, the president of the Palais de Tokyo, asked Jean-Michel Alberola for a room in which to re-invent the world, a room in which to meet when you want to change everything, not just do business as usual. The ‘Power Room’ – Alberola prefers to call it ‘The room of instructions’. A wide room, about 30×30 m, overlooking the roofs of the Palais, whose walls provoke colours, whose words provoke preconceived ideas… and inspiration.
This work, strictly incomparable – the frescoes of the quattrocento made miraculous truths shine forth, Alberola’s painted walls plunge truths into abyss – a clash of image and words, of eye and intellect, has already provoked a first ‘major’ (!) act even before it was born: the meeting between the Fondation Louis Roederer and the Palais de Tokyo.