Published on December 21, 2025 by Rodrigo Barbosa
Lyon Creative Lighting Forum 2025 - Part 1 - Opening Remarks and Keynote presentation
Lyon Creative Lighting Forum 2025 – Opening Remarks
Christophe Pascal, Vice-President, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Sylvain Godinot, Deputy Mayor for Ecological Transition and Heritage, City of Lyon
Bruno Paternot, Vice-President of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Keynote presentation – Le Chat’s Lighting - Philippe Geluck, Artist and Cartoonist, Creator of Le Chat
Philippe Geluck has often drawn on the theme of light and darkness. They are not opposites but accomplices, and neither would exist without the other. Light is so central for artists that many have spent their entire lives trying to tame it, soften it, or reproduce it. From Vermeer, the master of Delft, to Soulages, the master of the “Outrenoir”, light radiates from their paintings. Geluck tries, more modestly, to make his contemporaries laugh with Le Chat’s illuminations. Yet when it comes to bright ideas or reflections, we have to admit that Le Chat sheds light on us.