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STAGE DESIGN
VISUAL ARTS
FROM WENDESDAY 18 TO SUNDAY 22 JUNE
Prairie des Filtres
The order was clear long before the festival began. Everyone get ready to take over the Prairie des Filtres for Rio Loco! Transform it, dress it up, and fabricate a soul for it, to reflect this year's theme. Ever since January, several hundred volunteers, aged from 3 to 83, have been hard at work across the entire city, in leisure, social and community centres. They have been nailing, gluing, cutting, sewing, drawing, painting, patching up, and inventing objects, structures and "things" evoking the Balkans, whether real or imagined. All these anonymous creations have been added to those by Toulousain artists, and arranged throughout the Prairie des Filtres by Gilles Tanguy. A formidable collective effort.
IOSIF KIRALY
« PANORAMAS »
Any dog which regularly gets walked over the Saint-Michel bridge in Toulouse risks being completely disoriented during the Rio Loco festival. It'll be passing buildings, squares and streets that weren't there before! Its two-legged friends might like to know that the person responsible is Romanian photographer Iosif Kiraly. This clever illusionist has created an original work for Rio Loco entitled "Panoramas". Along the bridge's 400m span unfolds a panoramic photograph of a city invented using images of public spaces from various Balkan cities. The festival entrance, in a continuation of the Saint-Michel bridge, will also be left in the hands of this ingenious urban territory stylist.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1957 in Romania, Iosif Kiraly is an artist who shares his time between installations, performances and email art.
Very active on the international level as an artist 
but also as a member of the Subreal collective, he is being teaching photography since 1992 at the University of Arts of Bucharest; he created in 1995 the Faculty of the new media within the same institution.
LAURA TODORAN
LIFE LOGO
Giant pictograms blooming in the Prairie des Filtres! Don't be alarmed, the only risk is to your hyperactive curiosity. But what is the true meaning of these enigmatic giant drawings (3x4 metres) associated with words? They have been conceived by Laura Todoran, a Serb artist specialising in wall frescoes. Called "Life Logo", and focusing on the Balkans, they involve associations of images and words, some surprising and unexpected, which each have a significance for the artist. Scattered around to tease the perceptiveness of festival-goers, they are a reminder that art is never obscure if you approach it in an amusing way.
BIOGRAPHY
Born on August 13, 1980, in Pancevo, Serbia, graduate of the university of the Art schools of Bucharest and specialist in mural frescos, she has undertaken for several years a work around the universal language, figure of the feelings and writings without letters.
