This wagon, covered in bullet holes from which rays of light shine out, was originally inspired by a dramatic incident: the death in 1987 of several Mexicans who had been trying to cross over the United States border in a freight train. The locked wagon was abandoned in the middle of the desert. Yoko Ono sees this work as ‘a memorial to all the injustices of the 20th century’ and ‘a manifesto of resistance, cure and hope for the future’.

Orange bricks placed in front of the white facade, this sculpture fosters a dialogue between two forms of architecture. That of the North, rather modest, which contrasts with the neoclassical monumentality. Neither interior nor exterior, Kirkeby’s mini labyrinth leads you to where you least expect. An experience definitely worth trying!

The past or the future? This sculpture in rusted iron seems to emerge from another time. Do the rings, hollows and bumps constitute a kind of coded language? Recycled filings and scrap, the cast iron is similar to a lava flow that has fossilized. The archaic forms convey a sense of power, evoking the vestiges, totems or mythological attributes that might have been forgotten, there on the terrace of the museum...

This is rather glitzy for a ball of crumpled newspaper...
An enlarged page from a business newspaper, this sculpture could deftly tell the story of society, troubled by the most recent stock market difficulties. Speculative and ephemeral values are reflected as if set in stone. Or rather in stainless steel when it comes to this particular piece. An improbable monument in memory of deceased traders? For Wang Du, if news is temporary, artworks, similar to stock market quotations, remain.