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Artist JR Installed a Trompe-l’œil Canyon Illusion Under the Eiffel Tower

Design 1-2 minutes 5/24/2021


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An art installation has created the optical illusion that the French capital’s Eiffel Tower is perched precariously over a rocky ravine.

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The artwork, by an artist who uses the pseudonym JR, involved laying an image of a ravine, and the pillars that form the base of the Eiffel Tower, onto the floor of an esplanade that overlooks the tower.


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When a visitor stands in the right spot, the artwork in the foreground and the tower in the background line up with each other, and the illusion is created.


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Other work by the same artist includes an installation at the U.S-Mexico border wall that appears to show a giant baby peering over the wall, and an optical illusion that made it appear a chasm had opened up in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris.


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