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Olivier Bac
Happy Birthday President.
It is in a creaking fashion that James Colomina wished Emmanuel Macron a happy birthday this Monday and celebrated the first day of winter.
The street artist has placed a red resin sculpture of the Head of State in front of a tent on the Quai de Valmy, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
"I wanted to denounce the trivialization of the misery of the homeless locked up outside and too often forgotten," explains James Colomina.
I just took our President who is at the top of the pyramid and put him at the very bottom.
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The work was installed overnight from Sunday to Monday.
The homeless were "delighted to welcome him", according to James Colomina who set up his red sculpture and its tent next to a busy tent.
“By creating this work, I hope to shed light on the homeless.
We have to stop getting used to misery.
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The statue of Emmanuel Macron, made in red resin by street artist James Colomina, in the middle of tents of homeless people in Paris.
- Olivier Bac
This street artist from Toulouse is not at his first installation in Paris, we have seen these works under the Mirabeau bridge, on the facade of a high school in the 10th arrondissement or on an empty plinth in the 14th.
Last week, in Toulouse, with one of these red sculptures, he spoke of “the addiction to screens during this period of confinement”.
Miami is the next city where one of his works must carry a “societal message” dear to James Colomina.
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