The spectacle of the transition to January 1, 2025, around the Arc de Triomphe was entrusted to the multimedia agency and lighting designer AV-Extended. Including two of the artists and architects of this company, Anne-Sophie Acomat and Jérémie Bellot, are none other than the owners of the Château de Beaugency.
The show promises to be grandiose. And it will be seen by millions of spectators and television viewers, since the show will be broadcast by France Télévisions.
“We are working on the New Year’s Eve at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris,” confirms Jérémie Bellot, a visual artist from Orléans specializing in architectural videomapping and light installations. He is also the owner, with Anne-Sophie Acomat, of the Château de Beaugency, which they transformed into a contemporary art center.
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For two months, with the Balgent and Strasbourg teams from AV-Extended, he has been working on a show for December 31. It will be “an exceptional show,” he promises. “We are working hand in hand with a pyrotechnic team for the final show.”
For this show, AV-Extended worked “on the question of heritage. It is a show that tells the story of Paris and its many faces: the city of light, the romantic city, the city of culture, the creative and innovative city. We worked on these metamorphoses between the different cities.”
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And the artist evokes the bowels of Paris, the fountains and the splendor, aquatic dances… “in the form of a great contemporary ballet”.
“We are also transforming the city into a format similar to Inceptionwhere we duplicate the emblematic monuments of Paris, we transform them, we make them lose all notion of gravity by duplicating them on the facade… Then, we return to the question of time, with the clock of the Musée d'Orsay and we transforms this arc into a giant clock mechanism, which takes us on a journey and questions us about the cosmic properties of time. A symbolic journey, a bridge between the past, the present and the future, and the eternal beginning that the new year symbolizes, with its new perspectives.”
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The team also worked on the union “of human bodies, synapses, communication networks, data networks. Then, we made an analogy with Paris seen from the sky, at night, from the international space station.”
Jérémie Bellot finally promises a finale “in apotheosis, with a tribute to the French touch, with a fairly electro and contemporary ballet as we like to do.”
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On the budget side, the City of Paris will spend 700,000 euros. “Then there are additional budgets, like those for television to increase the lighting kit.” But for the Orléans artist and his team, it is above all “a big challenge, a big challenge. We won the call for tenders in 2019. But there was Covid, and the project was postponed. Today, we have the chance to present our fantastic creation on the Arc de Triomphe and share it with as many people as possible.”
The Balgentian company will thus offer itself enormous visibility, further illuminating the city of lights.
Maude Milekovic
