when Eric called me to tell me he
will you have to explain to us how
you did the job how you chose
to be an artist how did you go in
this artistic profession
I said to myself but in fact I ‘m going
never thought about that it was
me an evidence a species
of unconsciousness I do not know how you
explain better I always had
the impression that I was made for that
serves that not a single moment I got
asked questions so come here
in front of you tonight to explain
how did I do that needed two
that I think
how did it go in my life
today I’m 60 years old and here we are
how did I do so first I’m going
explain to you what I’m doing my
artistic craft is pretty special I
am a specialist in fireworks and
big shows called
event management very
mainstream in shows
popular kind July 14 or so
now because I thought about it
after to management of the company
when one suddenly realizes that
the company may need to
specific moments when the show
the artist needs to get in touch
momentum comes to the second intervention
of the human of the encounter is always
of the human then as I tell you
I said I did not think at first and
gradually wander through us
worked and I said good
what is it that made me
did this job that I went to the
artistic craft that I do
today then firstly force
is to find that I believe we are
all obliged and oriented from the beginning
by his birth then from a point of view
so we’ll say we’ll say from one point
genealogical view anyway
lactic we have we do not know that
months out is that as far as
I propel myself backwards as I age
3 years old I did not see things
like the others bent I do not know
why am I explaining to you there was a
storm outside instead of doing like
most children to put a
pillow on the head
I went out on the balcony and I was screaming
that’s wonderful
my parents had a tiny
problem a little problem with me
because they have this kid is not
normal because that’s me I found
that the elements in fury sam is she
the landscape in a state that was not
not the one that was usual and that
had kindly told me
and in the state where it was normal to
to see it , that is to say that at one go
I found it incredible when
I was at the lake Annecy where
I live
I was dipping my feet and I was planning
the water in the sun is this this water
who was planning was immediately
either diamonds not necessarily
diamonds because you’re going to believe that
the interested in the money but in any
case something that shines is something
something that took the mind beyond
what we are used to having is
to say that it was no longer water
no longer no no it was something
who propels me is in another world
the second thing is that i was born
in a family do not have artists
professionals but in any case people
who loved to party and who for
that everything had to be systematically
bossert that there had to be a setting
scene in everything we did
I take an example Sunday does not
do not sit at table at my place
grandparents time that we had
did not do what they called them
flower show
that is, we had to go to
the front garden between mass and the
wings and lunch
we had to go pick some flowers and
make bouquets of flowers on the
table then no doubt that it had to
influence
I tell you my life but all that
to say that whatever one does
and the others before doing the job
when we want to do in our life
must take into account everything that
we were given that it’s from a
point of view dna or from a point of view
education I do not think about
revolutionize the world by saying that
but I think in any case that we
get to know us
me anyway my life was only one
succession of happiness when I spoke
of my three years this year where there
had the famous thunderstorms where I went out
for the first time in ten years it’s
beautiful there was also in annecy
a show called the Feast of
lake and who at the time was celebrating 150
feeling sorry for the attachment of the
Savoy to France
for the occasion there was a huge
pageant with the magnitude
the Emperor Napoleon III to
the empress of fireworks
everywhere and I was 3 years old and I
said my god if life is that
it’s absolutely beautiful
so me in my head I told myself
later I want to do that and I
assures you that at age
and four in five years I do not have anymore
never said anything else to my parents
what to say to me I’m going to party
so that I can assure you that in
99% families
we tell you my boy is very good
but pass your bac first
I was lucky enough to have an amazing chance
is that my parents never
say this
never never never he sold yeah
you’ll do it maybe you’ll see us in
anyway we trust you
and that’s a word I have
a lot of thought now I have
four children and and I did not have
thought for me but I surrender
account that allowed me to do
my job in this famous job is the
trust
then there is actually a part
of innate and acquired that I come from you
tell but a second a second
does second thing that is
extremely important is the
trust and I always had this
trust so here it’s about the
parental trust but it can
to be after the trust of those we
meeting and we come back to the
second it makes me interventions
which I liked a lot because
that indeed I believe that two lakes
of the encounter is the structure the
construction of what we will become
we do not know how advanced it is
true that before coming here I had
the impression of being totally
unconscious and say yes bah that’s it
I wanted to do that I
let’s go
well no it’s obviously these are the
encounters and trust that one
and others can give you
as and if there is one who
not give you and that does not make you
trust
Well, we’ll zap it and I’ll say it again
to play with I always ap the people who
shit I always put them
side is perhaps preferred too
part of the game my code adn I
maybe this chance I do not know
the second point after one time
enlarge and I tell myself what do I
will do
what do I want to do good
the family structure and
environmental issues that I described to you
with us everything was happy game it’s
like to love my parents’ friends
were not necessarily in this state
of wit and I always heard
my boss told me to do that
thing is boring finally brief to be of
taboo like that and the first thing
which has nothing to do with the side
artistic is that I told myself I
do not want to have a chef
I do not want to meet an authority
that prevents me from doing what I have
want to do that after 2
which prevailed in my decision to
do my job in what I think that
I wanted to do it may seem
weird then I’m not against
authority but I am against I am
with the relationship that is to say that
actually there is always a
hierarchy whatever happens to me
today it’s true that I have the
chance to lead company man but
the hierarchy it lies elsewhere this
are my clients who decide
except when I’m a producer of my
own shows but nevertheless in
the encounter
you have to try to find anyway
I always wanted to meet
a constructive relationship in their
counter in the discovery in the
discovery of what others are and
that’s what helped me to go
far to extend my field of
knowledge effectively at each
day we learn and that’s what is
great but do not refuse
what can come from outside
then what am I that what
I want to do I told myself
through his shows there is one thing
which I like is that I I’m going
create the world differently from what
people see of this world
I will show you some pictures and
we will come back to it later
only artifices because we do
shows that go well beyond
of course I asked 2 2
two photographers for three years from me
follow to write a book and
micheline pelletier decaux and cyril
bruno I told them that’s what I
would like to show that through
art in this case my specificity
it’s an ephemeral art because I
not give a statue or a painting
nor something that will stay but I
inoculates in the in the minds of people
a moment that they will be able
take ownership and then transformed to
their way
I want to show things to
people as they do not see them and there
for example all the photos you
go see I’ll go quickly
are not done with this goal there
I asked the photographers of
photograph what you do not have
used to see because
generally we look at the bombs and
awesome
and these events are attractive but
we do not understand the time of
look at how that hitler
the environment and yet I can you
ensure that your brain when you
see our shows
whether it’s mine at the top of my
confreres memories the way you
have seen and that’s what makes life so
beautiful and so wonderful I hope we
helps to deprogram a little the
otter brain looking forward to your
Work on your worries and worries
so here for example I
voluntarily chose photos that
show such a site for not seeing it
because you’re going to go watch the
reflection that will go look at this
statue this statue is lit only
by firework bombs
I insist that’s the same
penan exhibition at the castle of
versailles or in one go the work
of art and is included is also the
photographer becomes himself a work
of art so here I did not want his bone
will pass others after if you want
that’s the tuileries
it’s another way of seeing
empty chairs it’s a rainy day
torrents of water there was no
spectator we fired a fireworks
for 15 people
it’s the extraordinary jam but
through the photo finally we come to
pass on something else so
what do I want to do I do not want to
to have a leader I want to be free
a third thing also in my job
I said to myself I want to have a quality
very important life I believe that there
you are there a lot of still
students certainly we all want to
do something specific because
we have dreams
we are ashamed at this very high as
had said thaler but if his dreams
become something that becomes a
handicap to be able to live power
raise his children that I
wanted to have a quality of life I
wanted to live in the countryside enjoy
nature climbing in the
high peaks skiing etc
finally all everything you have and no
it’s just so that’s it
was still part of the data
of the specifications that I had
that I had given myself
and then that’s what I was
wanted to do
thirdly what’s the point
the question I was asking myself because
when we see that we say the priority
the parents priority this game you
have a good job to win
money and indeed has well
that mine and a total trust
it was a bit complicated he said yes
how are you going to make a living then I
will win magis if I am useful to
someone in any case that’s what I
am told and finally making some
shows during my studies
because I was part of the offices
of students and then I was always
whoever wanted to organize the
receptions the stuff and to quote I
realized that I get is
the unique opportunity to people one of
meet to discuss being happy and
which always came back to each
once I was doing fireworks
people came to me English that’s
awesome it makes me fall back into childhood
as if the key word of life
it was childhood she goes I believe that
Yes
finally we come back to my famous
three years is the moment I was doing
that with my foot and but water jets I
would come back to childhood and this childhood if
she was happy because
that everyone does not have this chance
there this childhood when she is
happy we all want to go back
and it allows us to support what
is unbearable in life because
it’s the famous state of happiness in
which is perhaps a point
actually in the middle of a no man’s
land that we are trying to attack in which
we are going to project ourselves and we do not know
not so I’m told it serves some
thing
it was then necessary to find a model
economic that was important because
what to do to win
money etc without there was no
internet at the time
I went to the library
municipal where I took the bus you
because julie who is going to be interested
by parties the society is called
parties and fires hello the program
I party I make fires
who may be interested
by that at the time the uss you there
had real biography in it
where people were loosing themselves completely
he even went so far as to say what
collects besides awesome for the
burglars you old hall and
after and there was one that was
it was implausible and fiona who
said me I was part of such a rally
and seraph and so I selected
at the time in 81
arrived from mitterrand mister this is the
the moment I did my job did not see
no report I selected 83
biography and I wrote them all to
the hand I had no machine to
write at the time no computer and
so it’s contacting it’s not three
people I from 9.1 I the
did not know except that it was
people more than less illustrious since
was in the who’s who well figure
you that there are three who have
answered the same figure as three who
are still my clients today
love how many years ago 36
years people my clients and who have me
said but you are completely crazy
but we want to follow you
so that’s it the meeting is the
watchword is the human trust
in itself the trust we have received
that one is deeply oneself of air
what is in your head and does not
not refuse
at no time did I refuse to
do what I wanted to do
and then what made the click
because there is still a moment
it’s very nice there now I’m doing
prospecting in the other direction that
so I did the job barça
maybe make you laugh too and
well figure you it’s love
so it’s still
a history of human relations
since in this case it is my
wife who one day told me but I know
not what to do at the time I the
headed a family home of
holidays for children in difficulty in
more because I liked it
but never that stuff she told me
but you are crazy you should do and that
I come back to the keyword is the
trust that this woman who is who
was mine made me gave me
want to rush into the void
because it was and and so having
wrote to his 83 people six of which
three answered me well i created
my society
at that time and fifteen days after
I was launching a perfume that
is called anaïs anaïs for cacharel
in the arenas of Nîmes
I did not know anyone and from
from there obviously the jump is in
permanence to do every day because
that it never stops the game
especially in the artistic profession is
start all the time the job is
meet meet trust
so I have a small side maybe a
little zinzin
is that since I was young
little children I always had
trust in providence I believe
that everything exists in the universe that nothing
is impossible and that the most
important to success lies in
the dream because of everything we heard
up to the machines that
build stuff in 3d there’s not a
thing on this earth anyway
of humans that is not designed to
the base by a dream what is it
either me in this case it’s a
artistic dream that illuminates
differently things but all
material things of life that are
around us who surround us make
part of a dream and refrain from
to dream is to forbid oneself to succeed
because success is obviously
certainly a little money but that’s
first of all to feel in a state of
happiness
I can assure you that when I
creates breast for example see it’s a
lighting that was only part
fireworks saw the Eiffel Tower
filigree in the east when you see
that there is a kind of satisfaction of
enjoyment a hedonistic attitude
maybe from me but research
the search for this pleasure is
participate in creation and I believe
than me what gave me the envy to go
further
it is I am told if we are on this
earth I do not really know why
there is but it is to participate in
the momentum of creation that has existed since
the night of time at my scale a
film since me in addition it is
that I I I only do things
ephemera that I transmit according to the
chance to the public who has the
kindness to come and see my shows
So today I found look
for example that’s something
extraordinary
it is a lighting micheline decaux
is lying on the ground below
trees and lighting that you see from
leaves one might believe it’s in
full day ben no it’s fire
fireworks
it’s another way of seeing
things and I believe that today if we
want to go far is to achieve
his dreams and to show the world such
that we want to see him and not such
we are asked to see him thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
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