Without being able to display his work in the street, the artist Gaspard Lieb projected it on a wall in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), in the evening of March 25. "The Fall", evoking the fate of Icarus, was initially to be stuck the next day on the facade of Insa, the engineering school in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, explained the designer in Paris Normandy .
Gaspard Lieb had designed and then digitized his creation. "I had printed the tapes before confinement," he said. Instead of a traditional ten by six meter display, the Norman simply opened the digital file on his computer. "I projected it with my video projector on the building opposite my home," says the artist.
The theme of Icarus, a contemporary subject
"I do not exclude doing it with other works, but for the moment, with teleworking, I don't have time to work on new projects", testifies Gaspard Lieb. He declared on his Facebook page to realize “street art of containment” and thus to adapt to the circumstances. The designer believes that "The Fall" and the theme of Icarus are particularly topical during the full Covid-19 pandemic.
"Nature today remembers us, and sends us back to our own limits," analyzes the artist. "The technique will save us from the coronavirus thanks to the search for a vaccine, but this will not be the case for the problem of the global exploitation of nature," he concludes.
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