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French artist JR and 400 volunteers put the finishing touches to the huge Friday collage to mark the 30th anniversary of the Louvre's glbad pyramid.
On Saturday, he tweeted a 17,000-square-meter (183,000-square-foot) photo that, from a certain angle, made the pyramid appear to be deep in a white rock quarry, and invited the public to come to look at it.
They came, and in a few hours, some 2,000 fragile paper sheets were torn, which brought the site back to its natural state in what could almost be described as public performance work.
Art lovers, however, were not amused and some expressed themselves on Twitter with comments such as "a really disappointing experience for the 30th anniversary of the Louvre Pyramid".
Another noted that "JR's artwork was more ephemeral than expected".
The artist was more philosophical Sunday. "Images, like life, are ephemeral," he tweeted.
"Once glued, the work lives on its own.The sun dries the glue light and at every step people tear fragile pieces of paper.The process is based on the participation of volunteers, visitors and hunters of memories."
"This project also concerns the presence and the absence, the reality and the memories, the impermanence," he added.
Three years ago, JR, whose real name was Jean René, gave the pyramid a very different treatment, covering it with a giant trompe-l'oeil that gave the impression that it was the only one of its kind. she was gone.
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