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Joana Vasconcelos: Versailles
The Museum of French History
Château de Versailles, France
vasconcelosversailles.com
The Paris-born Vasconcelos specializes in site-specific works, creating extravagantly oversized sculptures. Her pieces rarely conform to their surrounding environment, instead seeking to enhance and counter them by abruptly altering the status quo. For the Museum of French History at Versailles, Vasconcelos has created several unique pieces, as well as installing several existing pieces, such as 2010’s whimsical “Mary Poppins.” Among the most eye-catching are “Marilyn” (2011), a pair of gargantuan high heels crafted out of pots, pans and cutlery and “Lilicopter” (2012), a helicopter coated in gold leaves and lavished with hot pink ostrich feathers. On display to Sept. 30.
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