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ECT INVITES SAYPE to ANNET-SUR-MARNE

Saype ‘s artistic performance is at the heart of ECT’s circular economy approach.
From September 24 to 30, 2021, the artist has taken up residence in Annet-sur-Marne (77), on a site rehabilitated by ECT using inert soil, to create his new Land Art work from his “Human Story” series.
With a total surface area of 3,500m², the ephemeral, eco-responsible fresco entitled ” Un jeu d’enfant? ” was painted in 3 days using pigments derived from excavated earth.

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In Annet-sur-Marne, Saype continues its "Human Story" series

After Switzerland, South Africa, Colombia and Burkina-Faso, Saype is now pursuing his “Human Story” series in Annet-sur-Marne, 35km from Paris. This emotionally-charged manifesto translates into imposing frescoes featuring men, women and children, coiled in grandiose landscapes to deliver a universal message.

Valentin Flauraud & LeSabe for Saype

A work that echoes ECT's circular economy approach

The fresco is located in Annet-sur-Marne, Île-de-France, on a former wasteland rehabilitated by ECT using soil excavated from nearby construction sites. Dozens of tons of soil were reused to develop the site for the benefit of the community and local residents, making it part of a circular economy that benefits everyone. The theme of this new work echoes the history of the site: Saype wanted to offer an interpretation of its rehabilitation, depicting a child playing with a bulldozer. The dimensions of the work give the illusion that the machine is the child’s toy. The materials used also reflect ECT’s activity: Saype chose pigment bases made from excavated material supplied by ECT: crushed and colored, this urban earth becomes the artist’s palette, helping to preserve biodiversity.

A public art project in the heart of suburban landscapes

By inviting Saype to Annet-sur-Marne, where Vasarely, the pope of optical abstraction, had his studio, ECT wanted to offer the town a chance to be associated with a world-renowned artistic gesture. Halfway between street art and land art, Saype’s work fits in perfectly with the landscape on the bangs of the Paris region, itself a hybrid, on the one hand agricultural and rural, and on the other resolutely urban, with the railway line nearby. Just a few meters away, the site is also home to one of the largest photovoltaic power plants in the Ile-de-France region, also built on artificial mounds created by ECT using excavated soil.

Known for his grass paintings made with eco-friendly paint, Saype has been named by Forbes in 2019 as one of the 30 most influential people under thirty in the world, in the field of art and culture

Self-taught, he is considered the pioneer of a new land art movement, thanks to an innovative process that enables him to create gigantic frescoes on the ground, using 100% biodegradable paint.

His monumental works of art, both grandiose and sensitive, amaze and challenge. In 2019, he begins a worldwide project entitled “Beyond Walls”. Its ambition: to symbolically create the largest human chain in the world, in over 30 cities and over several years, inviting people to help each other, to be kind and to live together.

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Valentin Flauraud & LeSabe for Saype