# Tadashi Kawamata in Versailles

After this post about Tadashi Kawamata's workshop in Versailles' school of architecture, here is his own installation in La Maréchalerie. Like the students' work, Kawamata uses crates and little plastic joints. In the inside, in order to create a new volume, crates are linked to a net hung by cables to Maréchalerie's wooden beams.
Exhibition is open until december 13rd but the outdoor installation will be took apart on october 6th.






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