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From September 8 to 28, in the courtyard of the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, 24 rue Pavée 75004 Paris.
This installation, created for Paris Design Week 2021, houses an imaginary and fairy-tale world unique to the creative mind of Alexis Tricoire. The hut is populated with natural plants and recycled elements from the French brush industry to create a work inspired by the prolific sculptor Takashi Murakami, while paying homage to the legendary Breton forest of Broceliande.
The atmosphere inside is meant to be convivial, carried by the custom-designed furniture in partnership with Atech, whose wooden slats are industrial scraps salvaged from a former project.
Tricoire thus continues his artistic approach to creating hybrid landscapes, combining nature and recycled industrial fibers, in an "Art-Balai" spirit: this project complements his exhibition "À Rebrousse-Poil" at the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire, as well as the pedestrian development of Charost Street in the city of Calais, both of which are still on view until November 2021. It is also a continuation of the "Hybridations" exhibition, created for Paris Design Week 2014, in the large greenhouses of the Jardin des plantes in Paris and his emblematic intervention for Solutions COP21 in 2015 at the Grand Palais with the installation "Nouveau Monde".
All these creations participate in the development of the fundamental values of the global approach of Alexis Tricoire, who works to raise awareness of the protection of the biodiversity of our planet.
