Art installation, Grand Pergola - the Hotel-de-ville

The installation derives inspiration from Monet and the Impressionist movement.

"It was in late 19th century, in Le Havre, where the sun first rose on the new impressionist movement in painting, captured by Monet and his renderings of light. His palette of a few simple colours are blended to convey the infinite nuances produced by light on a myriad of surfaces, textures, and colours, as well as by the movements of wind, clouds, and the path of the sun. Bending towards the light, the subjects of his works depict the dignity of desire and the joy of yearning that arise in the abundance of such overwhelming generosity."

View of the installation set against the Hotel-de-ville in France.

Night-time view of the installation.

Impressionism coined by Louis Leroy, in Charivari, April 24, 1874, for Monet's painting of Le Havre harbour, titled Impression: Soleil Levant

Credits

• Text: Courtesy, the landscape architect
• Photographs by Jacques Perron
• Compiled and edited by Varun M. Ajani

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