THE EPHEMERAL LABYRINTH OF ALFONSINE

The proposed layout for the ephemeral labyrinth 2023 is a free transposition of the painting Le Rêve by Pablo Picasso.
Le Rêve (The Dream in French) is an oil painting on canvas (130 × 97 cm) from 1932. Picasso, then fifty, portrays Marie-Thérèse Walter, his twenty-four-year-old lover. It is said to have been painted in a single afternoon.



The fabrics and wallpaper are recalled within the labyrinth by a series of rhythmic paths, drawn with straight lines, while the squares are placed at the center of curvilinear segments which, already upon approaching them, anticipate their presence.
The squares are arranged within the path marking the pivotal points of the painting, which represent the three fulcrum of the female image: the soft intertwining of the hands on the belly, the cord of the necklace on the neck, the intertwined double curve of the lower lip.

The path in stages proposed by the labyrinth therefore intends to retrace the climax of the creation of the painting, with the painter who, like any lover, retraces the points of contact that unite him to his beloved starting from the hands, then moving on to the neck and, finally, reach the mouth.

For the 2023 season the labyrinth is open from 15/06 to 17/09.