Photos: From Street Performer to Boho Billionaire: Meet Cirque du Soleil Cofounder Guy Laliberté
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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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Franz West’s Eidolon, 2009; Erwin Wurm’s Big Pumpkin, 2009, and Weiwei’s Iron Tree, 2013.
