Installation of Tadashi Kawamata at the Coulanges Hotel

You’ve never seen so many chairs in one place… And yet, everyone is standing! This curious spectacle is in the courtyard of the Coulanges Hotel, where Tadashi Kawamata has taken up residence to exhibit his new eccentric installation, a monumental stack of chairs, which stretches from the top of the building to the cobblestones of the interior courtyard. After a first installation based on chairs created last year in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Japanese visual artist, a specialist in the art of recycling, strikes again and signs this proliferation of unusual furniture, which seems to spring from the windows to flood the entire courtyard of the hotel. The nesting of the chairs gives the whole a fluid and organic appearance, like a substance that swarms and extends in space, and one takes pleasure in losing oneself in this maze of sculpted wood. Somewhere at the back of the courtyard, a small enclave forms an improvised hut, under which the visitor can take shelter and enjoy the magic of the installation while contemplating a ceiling of intertwined chairs. A playful and unusual curiosity, which will seduce those looking for an oasis of lightness in the middle of the Parisian jungle…

COULANGES HOTEL
Until October 2nd
35 Rue des Francs-bourgeois, Paris 75004