Sun king Olafur Eliasson takes over the Palace of Versailles

Artist follows Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons in transforming the royal chateau near Paris

Olafur Eliasson's installation at the Chateau de Versailles. (Image: Studio Olafur Eliasson/Instagram)

Olafur Eliasson, Waterfall (2016) (Photo: Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. © Olafur Eliasson)

The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has transformed the palace of Versailles outside Paris with a series of dramatic installations, from a waterfall in the chateau’s Grand Canal to a veil of fine fog in the Bosquet de l’Etoile grove in the palace gardens. The exhibition of works dotted around the grounds and famous salons of the 17th-century chateau opens to the public tomorrow (7 June). 

The waterfall, located behind the Fountain of Apollo, cascades from a height of around 40 metres according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. On his Instagram page, Eliasson writes that Louis XIV’s garden architect, André Le Nôtre, had planned a grand waterfall for Versailles, which was never realised.

Source: Art Newspaper
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