ART & DESIGN

Photos: From Street Performer to Boho Billionaire: Meet Cirque du Soleil Cofounder Guy Laliberté

The entrepreneur’s staging a whole new spectacle on Ibiza.

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Photographer: Henry Bourne
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Sarah Lucas’s Gold Cup Maradona, 2015.

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Guy Laliberté, this year, at Can Soleil, his Ibiza property, with Christopher Wool’s Untitled, 2014.

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Laliberté’s sculpture park, featuring works by Ugo Rondinone, Ai Weiwei, and Giuseppe Penone.

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Penone’s Albero Folgorato/Thunderstruck Tree, 2012.

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Jenny Holzer’s site-specific For Ibiza, 2016.

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Thomas Schütte’s Grosser Geist Nr. 6, 1998.

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Rondinone’s I Feel, You Feel, We Feel…

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Wool’s Untitled.

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Detail view of Rondinone’s I Feel, You Feel, We Feel Through Each Other Into Our Selves, 2012.

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Laliberté clowns around before liftoff to the International Space Station, 2009.

AP Images.

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Laliberté, as a fire-breathing young man, in the 1980s.

Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil.

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Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE, Las Vegas, 2013.

Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil.

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Photographer: Henry Bourne

Franz West’s Eidolon, 2009; Erwin Wurm’s Big Pumpkin, 2009, and Weiwei’s Iron Tree, 2013.