Two Trickster Artists Provide New Perspective at Musée d’Orsay
Watch a full moon rise above the horizon and it appears awe-inspiringly outsize. But this is just an illusion. Look at it upside-down from between your legs, and — just like magic — the moon shrinks.
Such is the power of the perspective shift to jolt us out of our delusions and transform the way we see the world. That’s part of the premise behind Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s “L’Addition,” a massive installation in the sculpture nave at Musée d’Orsay in Paris that will be on display Oct.
15 through Feb. 2. The Scandinavian-born duo, known as Elmgreen & Dragset, are anchoring five sculptures to the underside of a giant platform inserted into the nave.
These artworks will hang upside-down from the “ceiling” formed by the platform, floating above the museum’s 19th-century sculptures in what the artists call a trans-historical flirtation.
