This Valentine’s Day, you can treat yourself to a whole new experience of French art at Jantar Mantar. French light sculptor Patrick Rimoux is lighting up the monument with a huge spectacle titled Lumino City, combining a feast of electronic music, visual arts and fashion.
Funded by the Government of France, the show will cost 100,000 Euros and will be the star attraction of the second edition of Bon Jour India, a three-month festival of France in India, beginning January.
‘The couture will showcase light dresses by the Indo-French couture duo Leconaet Hemant and the music will be done by DJs of the band Scratch Bandit’s crew. It’s a 30-minute show but we will play it repeatedly since we are expecting a 5,000 plus turnout at Jantar Mantar on that day,’ Rimoux told Millennium Post.
Rimoux, who was in Kolkata to unveil a show titled Under the Sky, said that the Jantar Mantar show will play on the theme of Indian astronomy and depict the sun, the moon, the calendar and various stellar configurations. ‘It took about five months to give shape to the project. I treated it as a building where I was doing the sculpture. But it was an honour to be doing this show,’ said Rimoux, who has also bagged the contract for doing the lights for the City Palace, Jaipur. The French sculptor also plans to work on Bollywood set designs if he gets an opportunity. ‘After all, I’ve used 35 mm film rolls for the Kolkata show and I am a big fan of Satyajit Ray,’ he gushed.
In Delhi, Rimoux will also display his installation, Beauty and the Beast at the Delhi Art Fair. Bon Jour India 2013 will be celebrated in 14 Indian cities including Delhi and will host French dance, theatre and culinary art.
Funded by the Government of France, the show will cost 100,000 Euros and will be the star attraction of the second edition of Bon Jour India, a three-month festival of France in India, beginning January.
‘The couture will showcase light dresses by the Indo-French couture duo Leconaet Hemant and the music will be done by DJs of the band Scratch Bandit’s crew. It’s a 30-minute show but we will play it repeatedly since we are expecting a 5,000 plus turnout at Jantar Mantar on that day,’ Rimoux told Millennium Post.
Rimoux, who was in Kolkata to unveil a show titled Under the Sky, said that the Jantar Mantar show will play on the theme of Indian astronomy and depict the sun, the moon, the calendar and various stellar configurations. ‘It took about five months to give shape to the project. I treated it as a building where I was doing the sculpture. But it was an honour to be doing this show,’ said Rimoux, who has also bagged the contract for doing the lights for the City Palace, Jaipur. The French sculptor also plans to work on Bollywood set designs if he gets an opportunity. ‘After all, I’ve used 35 mm film rolls for the Kolkata show and I am a big fan of Satyajit Ray,’ he gushed.
In Delhi, Rimoux will also display his installation, Beauty and the Beast at the Delhi Art Fair. Bon Jour India 2013 will be celebrated in 14 Indian cities including Delhi and will host French dance, theatre and culinary art.