Artist makes iconic Louvre Pyramid “disappear”
French artist JR has made the iconic Louvre Pyramid in Paris disappear in an optical illusion.
The artist covered the glass pyramid with a trompe l'oeil, an eye tricking technique that uses realistic imagery to create an optical illusion. Covering the pyramid’s nearly 700 glass segments with black-and-white photos, JR made the large monument in the middle of the courtyard “disappear”.
Tourists who visited on Wednesday fought to take a potentially historic selfie of the Louvre without the glass pyramid.
JR said he enjoyed "people being destabilised and trying to find the point" that scales with the background.
Louvre exhibition organisers said the artist’s "spectacular mode of intervention poses questions about artistic creation, the role of images in the age of globalisation".
The artwork will be on display until 27 June, 2016.
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