Concept and Direction: Frédéric Flamand | Scenic Design and video sculptures: Fabrizio Plessi | Original Music: Michael Nyman

Icarus is the myth of an individualised utopia, of freedom and liberation. Man thinks he is able to triumph over the labyrinth of his earth-bound condition thanks to the artifice of his feather and wax wings but he is punished for having defied the gods. His fall follows his flight and the calamity that befalls him is a measure of his pride. (Michel Baudson).

The Fall of Icarus is presented as the epitome of our most vivid illusions : the tension of imminent catastrophe, the obsessive utopia of our high-tech modernity , a reminder of eternal human foolishness, the power of creation and of desire, metaphysical terror, a new illusion of our "ideal cities" : all this is incorporated here in a huge fresco by no means lacking in humour or stunning invention in which our memory and media imagery are locked in confrontation. (Frédéric Flamand).

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10 Jan. 1998