M I C H A E L P E N D R Y
L E S C O L O M B E S
An international art-for-peace
project and multimedia installation.
In the air since 2015.
S C R O L L D O W N ↓
COME & FOLD YOUR OWN DOVE
COME & FOLD YOUR OWN DOVE
NEXT SHOW PLANNED
DUE TO RECENT DEVELOPEMNTS IN ISREAL, LES COLOMBES WILL BE SHOWN IN MUNICH, TILL THEY CAN FLY TO JERUSALEM AGAIN
Munich
Heilig Geist, Viktualienmarkt
Art for the people.
Art can make a change.
Involving People and connecting is a big part of this art-for-peace project. The encounter with Les Colombes hits the heart. Softly lulling coos fill the space. A impressive amount origami paper doves, popped in blue light, whirl softly on the ceiling, folded by people around the world, no matter what age, what colour, what religion and what social background. People get engaged, create their own doves, help each other, start communicating and become a part of this worldwide art project.
Burns & Beyond Festival 2022
LES COLOMBES is part of the Burns&Beyond festival in Edinburgh showing at the famous St. Giles cathedral. Burns&Beyond is a festival dedicated to the life and cultural legacy of the scottish poet Robert Burns, not just in Scotland but across the world.
THE DOVES
Regardless of external circumstances, peace is always a touch away – within us – and always available. Symbolizing love, hope and kindness, the doves encourage a feeling of optimism as we reflect on years past and look ahead.
The project
Les Colombes is a large-scale multimedia installation interweaving a flock of over 2.000 floating origami doves with a capturing light installation and a specifically composed sound cloud. But Les Colombes is much more. It is an Art-For-Peace Project reaching out to connect people from all over the world, all ages, all backgrounds, all colours, all religions. It is an eclectic, emotionally charged experience. Les Colombes is a testimony of our universal desire for peace highlighting unity in diversity.
A message we need to spread.
There is a romanticism in Pendry’s oeuvre that is rare in our fast-paced, mechanical world.
Houston, Texas 2021
Comission for Marathon Oil Tower, Porcelain Art Edition
Art for the people.
Art can make a change.
Involving People and connecting is a big part of this art-for-peace project. The encounter with Les Colombes hits the heart. Softly lulling coos fill the space. A impressive amount origami paper doves, popped in blue light, whirl softly on the ceiling, folded by people around the world, no matter what age, what colour, what religion and what social background. People get engaged, create their own doves, help each other, start communicating and become a part of this worldwide art project.
Times Square - New York 2019
Mount Zion, Jerusalem 2017
A journey around the world.
6 years ago, artist Michael Pendry started to sent his site-specific installation on a journey to the most iconic sacred spaces around the world, from Jerusalem, to Salisbury, New York, Washington DC and San Francisco. The installation is touching the people, creating a universal language that is understood all over the world.
“School without Walls” - Washington DC 2021
London 2017
St.Martin-In-The-Fields, Trafalgar Square
THE ARTIST
It seems that it is time to remind and to stand up for it – for the right of peace and freedom! May the flock of doves grow from day to day, from country to country and beyond all boundaries.
Michael Pendry
Michael Pendry is a mixed media artist, mostly working in public spaces and doing large scale installations. Coming from a theater background It is very important for him to reach people with his projects, his work. Especially those people who do not usually visit the galleries, museums of our cultural world – to experience things of our everyday life in a new dimension and maybe also giving them a new magical twist, a magical moment which has almost disappeared in our world.
