Place Saint-Georges - Paris 9, 22h00

One of the 72 Facets of Paris, a series born of a piano waltz of the same name: the artist gave each of its seventy-two measures the harmony of a Parisian place at a given hour, then painted each harmony into colour and form through his ideamorphic method. The dance draws toward its close as night falls, circling back to the prelude. From the chord B♭−9 it draws the spirit of the place Saint-Georges, the Nouvelle Athènes, at ten: magenta and blue, navy and green, orange and teal, a white square against black — the Nouvelle Athènes, laid out in 1824, its romantic façades by night. It holds the square (column 9, row 3) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.