Ingo Maurer

Ingo Maurer devised three installations specially created for the Fondation Cartier; two other installations are allusions to contemporary artists. A series of spontaneous works that lead the artist to the formidable idea of bringing light into the former bunker that is the Gallery.

The works are presented in twelve rooms and may lead the visitor to a state of meditation or bewitchment. Mirrors, water, smoke, and glass are transformed into marvelous figures. The edges are distorted, the shapes break up, resulting in interrupted movements. Pendulums of light make shadows dance on the ground and walls, the rooms sway and can no longer be perceived as fixed spaces. Light allows you to discover rings of smoke, which rise up and fly away, floating, spreading out, growing larger, and scattering.