Place Pigalle - Paris 9, 23h00

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 A♭7 it draws the spirit of the bars of the place Pigalle at eleven: green and red, blue and orange, purple over deep navy — neon and night-life at full tilt. It holds the square (column 9, row 6) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.