Help us to acquire a 140-meter-long painting by Sylvie Selig

Help the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon acquire River of no Return so that this giant painting can become part of a French public collection! Your donations will gradually unveil the work of Sylvie Selig, visitors favourite artist of the 2022 Biennial of Contemporary Art. And we're offering you a whole host of arty rewards. The more donations you make, the more the work is revealed. Little by little, River of no Return unfolds before our eyes. Join this collective adventure! Our project: We'd like to acquire for the macLYON's collection, and thus for France's heritage, an immense 140-meter-long painting by artist Sylvie Selig: 3 times larger than the one presented at Fagor during the last Biennale d'art contemporain! The artist: Sylvie Selig Sylvie Selig, 82, lives and works in Paris. She has traveled extensively: she moved to Australia with her mother at the age of 13, where her schooling was in English, an explanation for her predilection for this language. She then lived in London, Paris and New York (where she worked as an illustrator for magazines and major publishers such as Esquire, New York Magazine, Condé Nast, Grove Press, Doubleday, etc.) before returning to Paris. Sylvie Selig set up her studio in the Pigalle district 28 years ago. Here she creates with a great determination. Her work has long remained ignored by the major art circuits. "Entering her studio is like crossing the threshold into another world" Margaux Brugvin Sylvie Selig has come a long way in her career, and her exceptional productivity has earned her well-deserved late recognition. A gifted draughtswoman as a child, Sylvie Selig (b. Nice, 1941) lived in Australia until she was 17, when she had her first exhibition. Her life resembles that of a novel, so much has she traveled before settling permanently in Paris. (Le Quotidien de l'art, March 8, 2023) The role of the Biennale (and Instagram!) in her recognition Sylvie Selig was spotted on Instagram by Sam Bardaouil et Till Fellrath, the curators of the last Lyon Biennale manifesto of Fragility (September 14 - December 31, 2022). They met while they were preparing the Biennale and they offered her to exhibit at Usines Fagor the oil-on-canvas Stateless and 28 characters of herWeird Family. The work macLYON wishes to acquire "It's the river odyssey of 3 characters, two boys and a girl, and their encounter with contemporary art. It took me 3 years to complete, because oil paint takes a long time to dry. There are 140 references to contemporary art for 140 meters of canvas". In 2012, Sylvie Selig debuted River of no Return (140m long by 2m20 high), a gigantic oil painting on canvas evoking the odyssey of three characters on a river and their encounters with contemporary art. The work was completed in 2015, and the artist worked on it for 3 years, portion by portion, as her studio is not big enough to unroll it. As Sylvie Selig says, "I've never yet seen the work in its entirety! The story is written beforehand, in English: "My paintings are stories. For each painting, I have the scenario". The macLYON The Musée d'art contemporain de lyon (macLYON), based at the Cité Internationale in Lyon since 1995 and dedicated to today's art, transforms itself completely for each of its exhibitions. ils collection of over 1600 works includes monumental installations.