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Art installation turns Liège train station into light and colour spectacle
The City of Liège completed the art project in Liège-Guillemins train station after roughly two months of works. The installation by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren was built with the help of mountaineers, transforming the train station with light and colour. The installation will be officially launched on 21 October.
Buren used colourful transparent stripes on the arched ceiling of the station to create colour projections on platforms that move as the Sun rises and sets. Presenting the project earlier this year, Buren noted that railway stations used to be “railway cathedrals” and added that the station in Liège reminds him of those days.
“It is essential to keep in mind that more than one hundred thousand people go through the station each week and they are not here to look either at a work of art or anything in particular… there needs to be something unexpected for them to discover,” he stressed. The project is part of an art initiative of the Uhoda Group, which wants to expose the public to more art. Funding for the project, worth some EUR 600,000 came from private and public partners.
Uhoda Group CEO Stéphan Uhoda noted “I am a fan of breaking down the barriers to contemporary art… one of my main motivations in developing this project was to use a public space to make the work of an internationally recognised artist accessible to as many people as possible and to promote our city on the international cultural scene.”
(Photo credit: J-L Deru, Daniel Buren, ADAGP, Paris)
