Picasso on screen

Renowned directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles, have paid direct tribute to the Spanish artist’s work. Very early on, Picasso was identified as a universal genius. As a result, his image has been multiplied across a wide range of fields: mass consumer goods, pop music, Jay-Z’s rap and car assembly lines. The rhythms of his pictorial and artistic constructions have inspired contemporary choreographers.

Jean-Paul Battaggia and Fabrice Aragno, who worked with Godard for many years, collected images from advertising, film, and ballet recordings before running them through the Isadora software program. This gave rise to an “organised randomness”, which plunges viewers into a flow of constantly changing images.