Sunsets evening On the occasion of the opening of Regulus
Régulus (détail) in “Sunset Cocktails”, Guillaume Aubry, JBE Books.
With Guillaume Aubry, artist and architect, on the occasion of the opening of Regulus, a new architectural sculpture in the gardens of Villa Paloma.
6:30 pm: Discussion between Guillaume Aubry and Benjamin Laugier (curator of the project) as part of Monaco Art Week
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7-10pm: Food & Sunset cocktails at Regulus with the Valentin truck
9pm: Performance screening of Sunset Boulevard, 1950, Billy Wilder, 1H50, VOSTFR
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Guillaume Aubry designed a heliotropic pavilion for Régulus. He has taken up the original layout of the Villa Paloma antique garden designed in 1913 by landscape architect Octave Godard, a pupil of Édouard André. The lines repeat and complete the design, recomposing the garden’s historic perspective of alleys and plazas. Ideally located, the semicircular sculpture faces due south and follows the path of the sun throughout the day. A solar oven, located right in the middle of the sculpture, captures the sun’s rays and heats, cooks, boils and warms up the drinks and snacks that will be served from time to time. A large counter completes the architecture, made entirely of solid bricks assembled in a geometric pattern.
Régulus is not a museum café, nor a cocktail bar, nor even an agora, but a little of all these things.
Guillaume Aubry, architect and co-founder of the Freaks agency in Paris, is also an artist and graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. For several years, he has been conducting theoretical and visual research into the aesthetic experience of sunsets. He defended his doctoral thesis Courser le soleil en 2022 as part of the Radian program. He currently teaches spatial design at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.
