THE EPHEMERAL LABYRINTH OF ALFONSINE
The proposed route for the 2023 ephemeral labyrinth is a free transposition of the painting Le Rêve by Pablo Picasso.
Le Rêve (The Dream in French) is an oil on canvas painting (130 × 97 cm) from 1932. Picasso, then fifty years old, portrays Marie-Thérèse Walter, his twenty-four year old lover. It is said to have been painted in a single afternoon.
The fabrics and wallpaper are recalled inside the labyrinth by a series of rhythmic paths, designed with straight lines, while the squares are placed at the center of curvilinear segments which, already upon approach, anticipate their presence.
The squares are arranged within the path, marking the key points of the painting, which represent the three fulcrums of the female image: the soft intertwining of the hands on the belly, the cable of the necklace on the neck, the double intertwined curve of the lower lip.
The path in stages proposed by the labyrinth therefore aims to retrace the climax of the creation of the painting, with the painter who, like every lover, retraces the points of contact that unite him to the woman he loves, starting from the hands, then moving on to the neck and, finally, reach the mouth.
For the 2023 season the labyrinth is open from 15/06 to 17/09.
Le Rêve (The Dream in French) is an oil on canvas painting (130 × 97 cm) from 1932. Picasso, then fifty years old, portrays Marie-Thérèse Walter, his twenty-four year old lover. It is said to have been painted in a single afternoon.
The fabrics and wallpaper are recalled inside the labyrinth by a series of rhythmic paths, designed with straight lines, while the squares are placed at the center of curvilinear segments which, already upon approach, anticipate their presence.
The squares are arranged within the path, marking the key points of the painting, which represent the three fulcrums of the female image: the soft intertwining of the hands on the belly, the cable of the necklace on the neck, the double intertwined curve of the lower lip.
The path in stages proposed by the labyrinth therefore aims to retrace the climax of the creation of the painting, with the painter who, like every lover, retraces the points of contact that unite him to the woman he loves, starting from the hands, then moving on to the neck and, finally, reach the mouth.
For the 2023 season the labyrinth is open from 15/06 to 17/09.