Ingo Maurer

Born in 1932 in Reichenau (Germany), he lives and works in Munich (Germany).

For several years now, the Printemps de Cahors has chosen to invite a personality from the artistic world - whose reputation does not come from the field of visual arts - in order to show the transversality of fields and practices.

It is because of his work on the sensitive dimension of light, developed by the Nuits Blanches, that the Printemps de Cahors is exhibiting a recent installation by the famous designer Ingo Maurer entitled Tableaux Chinois (2000): the Chinese shadows of goldfish swimming in two large horizontal basins are miraculously projected onto the ceiling... Ingo Maurer, named designer of the year in 1998 by the German press, has recently seen his work, which combines poetry and plastic creativity, crowned by numerous awards (1999 design prize in Munich, 2000 design prize in Barcelona, etc.).

He has become known to the general public for his lamps and his work with light, notably thanks to classics such as Lucellino, a winged bulb made of goose feathers, or Ilios, a plastic moon between two metal reeds.