Raymond HainsL’œuvre en chantier. Du Grand Louvre aux 3 Cartier

Hains’s photographs of the Grand Louvre building site, set up again on the square in billboard frames for the centenary of his birth.

For the centenary of Raymond Hains (1926–2005), the foundation revives its 1994 show Du Grand Louvre aux 3 Cartier. On the Place du Palais-Royal, his pictures of the 1981–1991 Louvre works, with bent pipes, stacked slabs and hoardings turned into “sidewalk sculptures,” stand in advertising-panel structures near where they were taken.

A second part, in the Galerie Valois inside the Palais-Royal – Musée du Louvre métro station, closes Oct 4: reproductions and archives follow his puns on the name Cartier.

Full details at fondationcartier.com