Claudia Passeri

Artist Claudia Passeri was selected to create a permanent work of art for the ca(fé)sino set up in the former Salons Saint-Hubert on the ground floor of the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain.

Zeitgeist - Karl Cobain is made up of two neon tubes which are graphical representations of two sound waves, two voices which made their mark in different ages, floating above our heads like two spirits which "enlighten" us. The first is that of Karl Marx who recites the first sentence of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848): A spectre is haunting Europe. The second is that of the band Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain, singing a lyric from the song The Man Who Sold the World (MTV unplugged, 1993) by David Bowie.

With these artistic works, Claudia Passeri stimulates our memories. Which characters have enlightened or marked history and culture, from the opening of the Casino Bourgeois in 1882 up to the opening of the Forum d'art contemporain in 1996?