Flaw

Flaw

1997, Caen
General Treasury of Caen
Client : Ministry of Finance
Architect : Thierry van der Wyngaert

The artwork in its form of a an angle reveals the relationship between the couple
formed by the building and the two roads that surround the General Treasury of Caen.

“Faille” is the monumental version of “Coin”. It is designed for the outdoors.
It consists of five volumes of yellow colored glass and a blue painted wall.
These volumes are perfectly aligned with each other.
This alignment (10m) at an angle of 15 ° to the plane of the back wall of the court.

Dimensions of the glass wall: 1000 x 280cm
Dimensions of painting: 1000 x 280cm
Dimensions of each glass plate: 300 x 200 x 1.7 cm