Co-produced with Simone Records and HUBBLO, the project translates a fundamentally static medium into an immersive experience while respecting the integrity of the work. It brings the audience closer to the artistic process, making legible a practice often perceived as abstract or instinctive.
Hurtibise: Orchestrating Chaos
The Immersive Setup
The dome acts as a total surface of expression. The works are no longer contained within a frame, but deployed in 360°, enveloping the viewer in pictorial matter.
Each painting becomes a space. Forms, colors, and textures extend, fragment, or recombine, transforming the viewer’s perception of the works.
The original music by the band Hippie Hourrah was developed in parallel with the visual content. It structures the cycles of the experience and guides the journey, linking image, rhythm, and emotion into a continuous sensory flow.
The Gesture
At the core of the project lies the question of the pictorial gesture.
Depending on Hurtubise’s creative periods, the visual approach varies. Some sequences deconstruct the works into successive layers, revealing stages of their making. Others extend the gesture itself, animating the lines and internal dynamics of the painting. Movement is not added as an effect, it is extracted from the very logic of the composition.
This approach makes perceptible what, in painting, usually belongs to intuition or the moment: the tension between control and chaos.
Narrative
The experience unfolds in six acts, corresponding to the major phases of the painter’s career. Between each act, archival recordings of Jacques Hurtubise’s voice introduce an introspective dimension. The artist reflects on his practice, his intentions, and his relationship to creation.
In contrast, the visual sequences allow the works to speak for themselves, exploring the methods, layers, and transformations that compose each painting.
This back-and-forth between voice and matter builds a narrative grounded in the creative process rather than in a traditional biographical chronology.
Hurtubise: Orchestrating Chaos explores what becomes possible when the adaptation of an artwork aims not at reproduction, but at accessing its internal dynamics. By deploying painting at the scale of the dome, the experience transforms the viewer’s relationship to the work: it is no longer simply observed, it is traversed.