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Monument
District : Montmartre / Pigalle / Trinité
Description :
Having collected the phrase « I love you » in over three hundred languages, the artist Frédéric Baron, wanted to display these messages of love on a wall.
The “I love you” wall stands at the centre of the Abbesses garden at Montmartre, and covers a surface area of 40 m² with a total of 511 squares in enamelled lava...
The phrase, “I love you”, the sweetest and most romantic of expressions, features 311 times.
Here are a few extracts: «nian'-ni-né-sné-i-kou-nou» (India), «sé-rèt-lèk» (Hungary), «daï-sou-ki» (Japan), «ti amo» (Italy), «veille-el-skar-deille» (Norway), «èk-èt -you- lif» (South Africa).
photo D.R.
Informations :
Together, Frédéric BARON and Claire KITO have, (thanks to a competition organised by two private patrons, Olivier PELAT and Daniel BOULOGNE and the support of French poet Jean-Claude de FEUGAS), given a 40m² monument made of enamelled lava with 311 "je t'aime" ["I love you"]inscriptions, in 250 languages, to Paris , 'City of Light' and capital of romance. THE I LOVE YOU WALL is built out of 511 21x29.7 cm tiles. The size of the blocks of lava recall the sheets on which Frédéric BARON collected the written text. The bursts of colour on the fresco represent the pieces of a broken heart, the heart of a humanity so often torn apart and which the I LOVE YOU WALL tries to gather together.
Others informations
Architecturals styles :
Contemporary
Collections period :
20th century
Garden :
located in the Abbesses small garden
Opening days and times
Open/Closed :
Free access
Days of week :
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Open on those public holidays :
1 January | Easter | Easter Monday | 1 May | 8 May | Ascension Day | Whitsuntide | Whit Monday | 14 July | 15 August | 1 November | 11 November | 25 December
Individual tours
Independant tour :
Access to the I Love You Wall is free.
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Access:
Square des Abbesses
75018 PARIS
District : Montmartre / Pigalle / Trinité
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