From 12 March to 19 April 2020, arc en rêve centre d’architecture presents Le Stadium, Rudy Ricciotti, an exhibition devoted to the Vitrolles Stadium, an emblematic building designed by Rudy Ricciotti, which was closed and abandoned by the local council after the Front National won the municipal elections in 1998.
Awarded the Architecture Contemporaine Remarquable label by the Ministry of Culture in 2018, the Stadium, designed in 1990, is a 5,000-seat concert venue and handball stadium. The monumental building, located in a former bauxite waste dump, is a black concrete monolith standing against a background of red earth.
Designed on the initiative of the association La Renaissance du Stadium by the architect Enzo Rosada, the exhibition tells the story of the Stadium, from its conception to its abandonment, looking in particular at its design and construction.
An outstanding collection of archives and artwork—photographs, films, drawings, sketches and paintings—tell the story of the stadium, and furnishings and fragments of the building are also on display.
Rudy Ricciotti’s Stadium was presented at arc en rêve shortly after it was completed in 1996. The exhibition Le Stadium MEFI, is also a way of exploring the political challenges of culture and architecture.