PROLOGUE

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With a project such as the Louvre-Lens, foreigners wonder, and are naturally intrigued to discover a museum, which is so important in a city like Lens. That is the reason why, the famous newspaper The Guardian will became interested by the project and will give us a report in December, 5^th, 2012, on Youtube, directed by Oliver Wainwright, a design critic, having been on-site, in order to discover this non-standard project and understand it.

The journalist begins by presenting, not without surprise, the city of Lens and its famous stadium in the Nord. He explains that it is a creation designed to revitalize the city's economy, however, it still cost 150 million euros on the global price. This building is compared to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, in Spain, that you can see during a short moment in the video, or even the Tate in Liverpool. It has however emerged thanks to a firm of contemporary Japanese architects named SANAA, with the assistance of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, dismissing Franck Gehry.

Then, we have the privilege to watch an interview with the two Japanese architects explaining the significance of the building and the reasons of their choice. While Mrs. Sejima is interested by light and delight that it gives her (we have here a play on two words), Mr. Nishizawa has, for its part, focused on games of reflection through walls in aluminium. It creates a link between reality and elsewhere, where the public and the masterpieces are answered. It creates echoes. It’s providing an alternative universe. It is the meeting between the imaginary and the real. The journalist visited the gallery and indeed, recognized the mirror games mentioned by the architect.

Then, the journalist explains to us that the exhibition is both geographical and chronological, but one can be surprised by the lack of walls. To go further in the presentation of the Gallery of time, the museographer, Adrian Gardère, is also queried. Ultimately the aim here was to provide a place with connection without walls. Therefore, each painting has the right to its own picture rail.

After a short summary of the content of the report, the journalist adds a few personal items, like a focus on the fineness of the roof of the Gallery of time, which fascinates him, and it proves how much we have a careful project that plays on the details.