Soulages Century:
In 2019, the city of Rodez (France) calls for projects to celebrate the forthcoming 100 years of the painter Pierre Soulages. The association Onet BMX Flat answers to that call and present a performance/happening in front of Soulages Museum, the 23rd of November 2019.
Inspired by the vision of the painter, Matthieu Bonnécuelle and Joachim Sontag perform a research about abstraction, through their respective mediums: the movement in BMX Freestyle, and the sound material.
With those materials for expression (or expressive materials), the performance follows a way where movement and sound will quit any significations, representations or meanings they could have.
In this abstract zone where the material makes sense, it is then about explorations, experimentations and adventures through raw, primal and fundamental energies.
Thanks a lot to the city of Rodez for the project, Joachim Sontag for this collaboration, and Sevisual for the present video.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.