REPORTAGE – After Jouy-en-Josas and the 14th arrondissement, the institution dedicated to contemporary Art will move in 2025 near the Louvre. The architect Jean Nouvel is at work again.
The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art is getting back into the competition, reaching a decisive milestone by positioning itself in the heart of historic Paris: between the Louvre, the Bourse de Commerce, the Palais-Royal and its Buren columns, as the crow flies. bird of Beaubourg and the Musée d’Orsay. A strategic location for those who want to be the center of attention and attract the widest audience.
For four years, a secret construction site, asbestos removal carried out at night so as not to disturb the five floors of offices above, has transformed the dark labyrinth of the Louvre des antiquaires into an immense space which will be penetrated by light, from the rue de Rivoli at rue Saint-Honoré. The only information is that house architect Jean Nouvel, 79, is at work, good guardian of an extraordinary secret. The only visual clue on the Place du Palais-Royal is a blind mastaba covered in mirrors, the “life base” which will be dismantled before the inauguration, at best by the end of 2025.
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Change of planet, Place du Palais-Royal. Since 1994, fans who pursue art off the beaten track have gone to the Fondation Cartier, at 261, boulevard Raspail (XIVe), to find yourself in front of Jean Nouvel’s building of glass and light which caused a revolution in this green and calm Paris. Until then, there was…
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