Friends of Alliance Française come together to celebrate the unveiling of “Paris/Penang", a 20-meter mural in oils featuring the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, the Queen Victoria Memorial Clock Tower, Penang Hill and Penang ferry at the Alliance Française de Penang. Penang-born former architecture student turned artist Elan Hasyim, 37 created this artwork which was painted over a period of over three months as he is based in Kuala Lumpur. Total time spent on the mural is about 30 days. The mural started with the two famous bridges – the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Penang Bridge which Elan connected to portray the relations between the two cities. “Paris is in a way similar to Penang. The old buildings are conserved and refurbished for adaptive reuse which is great and what I love about the two cities,” he said. The event was launched by Rahime Bouaziz, director of Alliance Française de Penang. – September 28, 2015. This mural can be found on the wall o...