18 November 2023

19:10 – 20:00

Amphithéâtre Painlevé

Ivan Sigg

Ivan Sigg is a painter, digital performer, press illustrator and novelist. After studying art history with Daniel Arasse, he prepared for the competitive art school exams at the Lycée de Sèvres and entered ENSAD in 1980. From 1984 to 1989, he was a member of the Banlieue Banlieue group, a pioneering street art collective in France. Since 1989, his work has been exhibited in France and abroad: painted walls, canvases, prints, sandblasted glass, skariphotos, metal sculptures, mail art, KUU art magazine, painted Suiseki, mobiles. From 1995 to 2007, alongside his work as a painter and novelist, Ivan Sigg drew for the daily newspapers Libération and Le Monde. He has published 6 artist’s books, 10 books for young people, 3 novels (Julliard): “L’annonce faite à Joseph”, “La Touffe Sublime” and “L’ile du toupet”; and 3 plays: “Animalamlet”, “Galoufa” and “Tout UBU du monde”. For the past 13 years, he has been performing live animated digital painting in musical shows in Japan and France. Finally, he shares his discoveries with Le Mouvement de la Désobeissance Fertile, La Maison de l’Artemisia, and numerous management and R&D teams, as a consultant in innovation and creativity.

Performance: Farce and the power of Art in action

Painter Ivan Sigg and musician Benvenuto Electrojazz join forces to combine contemporary painting, jazz and electro music in an experiment/performance. Their dialogue on the big screen reinvents “image music”. Before our very eyes, electro music conjures up an ocean of bass, in which the song of the amplified trumpet sculpts waves of powerful emotion. Immediately, the digital paintings become energized and rise in power, like the voices of the choir, giving the music color and form. Symbiosis! The whole ensemble comes alive and dances from one side of the stage to the other.