Clédat & Petitpierre

La parade moderne

Oops, what was that? A Magritte, a Munch, an Ernst or an Arp? And who is playing Ravel’s «Bolero» back there? The artistic duo Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre return to the festival with a new performance installation. For «Parade moderne» they send about a dozen fictional characters from the works of famous 20th century artists on a parade around the festival site. These «Sculptures à activer», as Clédat & Petitpierre call their hybrid creations, are huge and colourful. Freed from their twodimensional confinement, they unite into an enormous, mobile entity that paradoxically becomes both a performance and sculpture. Join this good-humoured carnival procession with an period-art touch. (esc)