« Transparency » is a theme that runs through the history of artistic practices.

From cubism to constructivism, from surrealism to kinetic art, from Picabia (the Transparencies series) to Marcel Duchamp (The Large Glass « Le Grand Verre »), from Pop art to contemporary stained glass (Viallat, Soulages, Dibbets) to today’s urban art.

Both literally (materials and techniques such as glass or pictorial work) and figuratively (poetic, political or societal positioning), the aesthetic stakes of transparency cover architecture, sculpture, painting, as well as watercolor, photography, video art, glass work, stained glass, jewelry, tattooing, airbrushing, scratching, installations.

In a rapidly-changing world where transparency and opacity are opposed in different forms (the mask we wear is a good example), the 2022 edition of Lille Art Up! invites artists and art galleries to address this issue rich in multiples enlightenments.

If transparency means in the first place that a body allows itself to be crossed by light, it is therefore under the double sign of Transparency and Light that the Fair is set. For the greater pleasure of the public. For the beauty of the artworks.