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Sculpture Park

On view from April 28, 2025 | Hangar Y, Meudon, France

A major cultural and events venue in Greater Paris, the Hangar Y invites new internationally renowned artists to its 10-hectare park each year to offer visitors a cultural stroll. These sculptures astonish, move and create bridges between nature and culture, for the pleasure of young and old alike. An opportunity to celebrate the return of spring in the open air.

In all, some twenty major figures in the world of art will be honored, as well as the inclusion, for the first year since Hangar Y opened, of big names in architecture and design. Since its opening in March 2023, 250,000 visitors have been able to discover the park and its evolving art trail.

The new works in the park combine art with nature, interactivity and enchantment, bringing to life the poetry and magic of the place through the eyes of the artists. The public is invited to interact with the works, to sit, listen, observe and play, and to take part in this playful program designed to awaken the senses.
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Pliny's Sorrow is an eagle-like bird with enormous outstretched, broken wings and a crudely carved, hollowed back. This totemic monolith, at once heroic and melancholy, indirectly illustrates a passage from Pliny the Younger: “If the portraits of the deceased placed in our homes relieve our grief, what can be said of their public representations: they commemorate not only their airs and features, but also their glory and honor!”
Johan Creten's sculptures are neither monuments nor anti-monuments: the commemorative, comforting and triumphant power of “public” art, its ability to make us forget grief, to remind us of what is lost and to celebrate all that is glorious and grandiose, is both destabilized and enriched by them. The eagle, a recurring figure in Johan Creten's work, resonates with a symbolic and political dimension.
— Christopher Mooney

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