Pablo Reinoso, Meudon Observatory

Pablo Reinoso
Meudon Observatory, 2018
Painted steel
600 x 250 x 150 cm (each)
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Waddington Custot

For Hangar Y, Pablo Reinoso has created an installation based on chairs from the series known as the Chaises de l'Harmonie series, whose steel branches reach for the sky. Conceived as a nod to the aeronautical adventure characteristic of the site, they invite visitors to stop for a moment and take a seat. Positioned in the great perspective traced four centuries ago by André Le Nôtre, linking the Château de Meudon to the forest, the artist's installation provides a new vantage point for observing this historic axis at the heart of the Domaine National de Meudon.

Born in 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in Paris, France. Pablo Reinoso's protean work spans the fields of sculpture, installation, design, architecture and painting. Created using raw building materials or objects from architecture and design, his works are part of a process of emancipation of the object or material from its original function, often through misappropriation. Since the 2000s, these questions have taken concrete form in the artist's work on the seated object, which her plastic production hijacks into motifs that evoke fantasy and reverie.