Thursday, in the early morning, a curious red shape and faces the Senate, Luxembourg garden, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
It is actually a statue representing Vladimir Putin, seated on a tank.
A tribute ?
A provocation?
Far from there.
The work is signed James Colomina.
The artist, accustomed to wild exhibitions in public places, is part of the movement of "humanist street art", a militant and demanding art which chooses the street as a field of expression.
The Vladimir
sculpture
was installed, without permission, in a sandbox in the Luxembourg garden "for a dialogue with the children" and ends with "a confrontation with a determined baby", explains James Colomina.
Customary of symbolic stagings – he had installed a representation of Emmanuel Macron under a tent with homeless people, Quai de Valmy –, the Toulouse artist explains this one by denouncing “the absurdity of war and the courage of children in the face of violent and catastrophic situations that they did not trigger".
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