About the ensemble
Compagnie Lucamoros is a French artistic company that has been creating unique site-specific performances at the intersection of theatre, visual arts and music since 1994.
They specialize in live painting on a large scale - in front of the audience and in public space. Their work combines the poetry of transience with visual expression, often working with projection, shadow, sound and text. Lucamoros create scenic images that appear and disappear in the same breath, choosing unusual spaces - squares, industrial zones or urban intersections - instead of the traditional stage. Their work is collective and consistently combines different artistic disciplines with an emphasis on the visual power of the moment. The group is led by founder and artist Pierre Esteve, who leads a team of painters, actors, musicians and technicians with a shared vision: to transform urban space into a living, temporary work of art
About the show
La tortue de Gauguin is a visually impressive performance that combines live painting, music, light and physical theatre into one spectacular artistic experience. The audience witnesses the process of the paintings being created right before their eyes - in real time, without the use of tricks or technical illusions. The images are created and at the same time disappear - in the spirit of the transience of theatrical art. In this performance, the performers become part of the picture, their movement and work an integral part of the overall choreography. Inspired by the story of Paul Gauguin, who is said to have once painted a picture directly on the shell of a turtle lost on a beach in Polynesia, this work also takes place outside the traditional gallery space - right in the streets of the city, among the audience. A giant structure serves as both stage and canvas, on which the painters layer transparent images while music and the voice of a narrator resound around them. Instead of ocean waves and the rustling of coconut palms, the sounds of the city's bustle and vibrant life are heard - and that's where Lucamoros bring their "mobile altar" of art, created just for the moment. The show pays tribute to the "poor" artists - those who create with limited means but all the more freedom of spirit. Those who don't mind being labelled "unusual", "folk" or "outsiders". And it is thanks to them that art takes on its true, living form.
