Entre la prestigieuse rade du bout du lac et la populaire plaine de Plainpalais, le parallaxe s'appuie sur l'homologie des deux plans en losange et la transposition des messages publicitaires des enseignes qui illuminent la première en installations artistiques lumineuses sur les toitures des immeubles qui bordent la seconde. Conçu spécifiquement pour la plaine de Plainpalais à Genève, Neon Parall
ax réunit neuf installations d’artistes suisses et internationaux : Sylvie Fleury (CH), Jérôme Leuba (CH), Christian Jankowski (D), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (F), Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo), Nic Hess (CH), Ann Veronica Janssens (B), Pierre Bismuth (F) et Christian Robert-Tissot (CH).
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Neon Parallax, a singular and ambitious public art project, took shape from 2005 to 2012 under the care of the Fund for Contemporary Art of the City of Geneva and the Canton of Geneva. Between the Rade, Geneva’s prestigious lakefront district, and the popular plain of Plainpalais, the parallax here is based on the similarity of the two diamond-shaped lake and land areas, and the transposition of the advertising slogans lighting the former to artists’ light installations on the roofs of buildings overlooking the latter. Designed specifically for the Plainpalais plain in Geneva, Neon Parallax is made up of nine installations by artists from Switzerland and abroad: Sylvie Fleury (CH), Jérôme Leuba (CH), Christian Jankowski (D), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (F), Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo), Nic Hess (CH), Ann Veronica Janssens (B), Pierre Bismuth (F) and Christian Robert-Tissot (CH).
