A NEW INTERACTIVE WORK BY VIK MUNIZ IN THE HEART OF THE CRAYÈRES AT MAISON RUINART IN REIMS
Vik Muniz interacting with Flow Bottles in the Ruinart chalk pits
Paris, June 6, 2019 – Maison Ruinart places experience and innovation at the heart of its historic cellars with the installation of the permanent work Flow Bottles by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, the Maison’s 2019 artist. It can be discovered in the heart of the Crayères, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The idea for this work was born during the artist’s visit to Maison Ruinart, a “unique place” combining the tradition of a thousand-year-old site with the most innovative technology.
Frédéric Panaïotis, Cellar Master at Ruinart, and Vik Muniz
This installation on the Crayères tour route is made up of 2,800 bottles of Dom Ruinart, hand-glazed according to time-honored techniques and individually equipped with a sophisticated LED system, forming a 5-metre-long interactive wall. The image diffused by the wall of bottles offers a visual and ephemeral distortion of reality, in the historic cellars where?? Ruinart bottles have been stored since the 18th century. The shadows of visitors are projected onto this wall of bottles and become light thanks to the LED system. In Vik Muniz’s work, the border between the real and the imaginary becomes blurred, triggering questions. This work extends the idea of fluidity that permeates the entire project Vik Muniz designed for Maison Ruinart.
Every day from Tuesday to Saturday, visitors will be able to discover and interact with the Flow Bottles work during their visit to Les Crayères.
Maison Ruinart’s 2019 artistic reinterpretation with artist Vik Muniz entitled Shared Roots was inspired by the adversity of climate and soil in the face of which the vine surpasses itself to offer the best of itself. And it is from this tension that creation is born. In all, Vik Muniz will have created 7 works for Maison Ruinart: 6 photographs (including a diptych, a polyptych and a time-lapse) currently on show at art fairs around the world, and the permanent work Flow Bottles, visible only at Maison Ruinart in Reims.
Visit Ruinart
4, rue des Crayères – 51 100 Reims
Reservations only, Tuesday to Saturday
Open from March to November.
Reservations: www.ruinart.com/fr-FR/visite
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