Brasilia. Flesh & Soul / Hundred Stars
Vinylics and metal pigments on canvas - 235 cm x 168 cm
2007

• "Hundred Stars"
  was created for
  architect Oscar
  Niemeyer’s hundred years birthday's celebrations at the
  Paris' House of Brazil
• in December 2007.
  It was presented during the "Hundred Stars" exhibition bringing together paintings inspired by Brasilia and organized by House of Brazil’s Cultural Service.
  The canvas depicts the architect in company of Brazil's former president Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902-1976), who had entrusted to Oscar Niemeyer and to urban planner Lucio Costa Brasilia’s design and edification, inaugurated in 1960.
• Painting shows late president Kubitschek’s soul offering one of the stars of the Southern Cross to his old architect friend as a birthday present, on the night of December 15, 2007 in front of the Alvorada Palace.
• This, in memory of the Brasilia construction site : on a starry night at the end of the 1950s, Juscelino Kubitschek accompanied by the architect spontaneously exclaimed in front of the Alvorada Palace then almost finished: "How gorgeous!"