Cycloid Piazza: an immense “skatable” sculpture on the Place du Center Pompidou: our images
Piazza du Center Pompidou
From June 26 to September 15, 2024
Was further proof needed that the Centre Pompidou is the epicenter of Parisian “cool”? Yet here is one, visible from June 26, 2024: the monumental and colorful installation by Raphaël Zarka, an immense “skatable” sculpture specifically designed to be installed on the Piazza du Center Pompidou. After Calder's large Horizontal mobile, Caesar's Thumb or even Jean-Pierre Raynaud's The Golden Pot, it is now Cyclonoid Piazza which is set up in front of the largest Art Center in Europe .
Metamorphosed, the emblematic place becomes more than ever a new meeting place, an urban agora where skate culture expands to music, looks and body postures. Like a mini-square designed to fill the famous Parisian square, this unique place promises to become an unmissable place in the capital for this summer of 2024. Here, the skate ramp is surrounded by stands and stairs, passageways and podiums. where visitors can come to walk, rest, meet or go skiing...
At the crossroads of culture and sport, passable by amateur or professional skateboarders, Cycloide Piazza is a living sculpture where skate culture and the architecture of skateparks meet , but also geometric abstraction and scientific research on movement which fascinate the French artist. After a first sketch in 2011 in New York and another in Toulouse in 2018, the artist, creator of life-size arcuate curves wants to illustrate the laws of physics and mechanics with the living! If skateboarding has been an official sport of the Olympic Games since this year, it has also become art, as illustrated by the terribly lively programming planned by the Center to accompany this new work!
Programming
Sunday June 30 - Activation of Cycloide Piazza: dance performance Cercle Aiyo - Féroz Sahoulamide in collaboration with Yoli Qii created exclusively for the installation where the 8 dancers invite the public to join them. (from 4 p.m. - open to all)
Saturday July 6: Skateboard discovery session with Realaxe: introduction to skateboarding and best trick contest. (from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. - open to all)
Saturday July 13: Demonstration and introduction by athletes from the Departmental Roller and Skate Committee (between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. - open to all)
Saturday July 20: Parkour demonstration and initiation with Culture Parkour (between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. - open to all)
POMPIDOU CENTER
From June 26 to September 15, 2024
Free and free entry
