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Toulouse: Rose Beton Biennale Part II
We continue our coverage of the Rose Beton Biennale in Toulouse ( check our previous report here). In parallel to the open air gallery, with street walls being painted throughout the city, the Museum of contemporary art, Les Abattoirs is … Continue reading
Posted in Festival, Museum, Toulouse
Tagged Cleon Peterson, Rose Beton, Tania Mouraud, Todd James., Toulouse
Toulouse: Rose Beton Biennale 2019
MOMO The third edition of The ROSE BETON FESTIVAL becomes a biennale dedicated to urban practices and cultures in Toulouse. National and international artists continue to invade the Pink City walls and cultural venues. Back in 2016 legendary graffiti artist … Continue reading
Toulouse: 100TAUR Massive Mural
French artist 100TAUR just completed the largest mural in Toulouse, after a continuous five weeks under extreme weather conditions. Located in the district of Minimes, the 400 sq meters mural has been commissioned by the Mairie de Toulouse, visible at … Continue reading
Toulouse: ICAREX-1 at the Chapelle des Carmelites
The Mairie de Toulouse and the Centre d’Art Nomade are currently presenting a monumental installation ICAREX-1 by an elusive anonymous artist at the Chapelle des Carmelites until 25 February 2018. We were lucky to get immersed in the creative process of … Continue reading
Posted in Toulouse
Tagged <++, Centre d'Art Nomade, ICARE, ICAREX-1, ICAREX1, Installation, Mairie de Toulouse, Monumental, Totem, Toulouse, TTM2LMR
Toulouse: Miroirs Urbains
Curated by Bob Jeudy, Co-founder of the “M.U.R” in Paris and Ines Desquines, the exhibition ‘Miroirs Urbains’ opened in Toulouse at the Galerie Concha de Nazelle, featuring 30 works 2mX1m by 7 Urban artists, as well a selection of customised … Continue reading
Posted in Toulouse
Tagged Miroirs Urbains, Street art, Toulouse
Video: Creve Hivernale II
December 2016. A wasteland surrounded by barbed wire with a view on passing trains, home to travellers, migrants and less fortunate people. This is not a picture taken in a distant country, but actually in the center of Toulouse, … Continue reading
Streets in France: Recognize! Vote!
With the historical Presidential election in France divided with candidates including Far Right, we followed anonymous activist artist < + + as he campaigned prolifically as the 12th candidate. His pasters feature his signature peaceful and poetic futuristic creatures and guardians of an imaginary micronation, … Continue reading
2016 HIGHLIGHTS
With 2016 coming to a close, we look back at the highlights of the year. Click on the titles to view more information. Banksy – Les Miserables (London) Venturing Beyond @ Somerset House (London) Space Invader – Wave 18 in … Continue reading
Toulouse: #Creve Hivernale / Decembrrrr 016
December 2016. A wasteland surrounded by barbed wire with a view on passing trains, home to travellers and less fortunate people. This is not a picture taken in a distant country, but actually in the center of Toulouse, France. With … Continue reading
Posted in Street, streets, Toulouse
Tagged A4 Putevie, ANNLOR CODINA, BERTRAND FRAYSSE, Butterfly, CLAIRE SAUVAGET, Creve Hivernale, DON QUICKSHOT, Dran, JEAN DENANT, LURK WARM, MADEMOISELLE KAT, Manuel Pomar, MARDI NOIR, Mathieu Tremblin, MOLO MOLO, NADIA VON FOUTRE, NATALIE SVIT-KONA EIFYRAN, SID POLIEKOFF, SOPHIE BACQUIE LUCIE LAFLORENTIE, Tilt, UPGRAYYDD RECIDIVE
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Toulouse: Bleu Bleu @ ‘Printemps de Septembre’ Festival
We continue our coverage on the Printemps de Septembre Festival in Toulouse with the Bleu Bleu Project (named after a mythical bar in Toulouse attended by the young art scene), a multifaceted project curated by Manuel Pomar. Originating from a scenario and … Continue reading
Posted in Festival, Shows, Toulouse
Tagged Bleu Bleu, Manuel Pomar, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
Toulouse: David Shrigley @ ‘Printemps de Septembre’ Festival
The Printemps de Septembre (Spring in September) returns this year after a three year hiatus to Toulouse in Southern France. The festival, which was recently redefined as a Biennal by founder Marie-Thérèse Perrin, takes place throughout the city with a … Continue reading
Posted in Festival, Shows, Toulouse
Tagged 2016, David Shrigley, in, Printemps de Septembre, Problem, Toulouse
Toulouse: Mister Freeze Festival
Following the recent Rose Beton Festival back in June ( see our full coverage here), the French pink city is currently hosting Mister Freeze ( a nod to the infamous art fair in London). Thirty international graffiti and street artists … Continue reading
Streets: Invader Pink Invasion (Toulouse)
Invader recently completed his first invasion wave of Toulouse, with Ten space invaders made with various shades of pink as a tribute to the town nicknamed ‘Pink City’ due to the pinkish terracotta bricks used in its architecture.. Toulouse is the 66th city to be invaded and … Continue reading
Posted in Street, streets, Toulouse
Tagged Pink Invasion, Space Invader, Street art, Toulouse
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Toulouse: Miss Van for Rose Beton
Miss Van is back to Toulouse with a new mural for the Rose Beton Festival (covered here). ‘La symphonie des songes’ mural features her signature sensual female character in a dreamlike landscape playing with colourful folklore masks from various continents, transporting … Continue reading
Toulouse: Ben Eine for Rose Beton
UK artist Ben Eine recently created a new mural with his signature font on one of the walls of the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse for the Rose Beton Festival. The colourful mural stating ‘STORYTELLING’ is already the favorite amongst … Continue reading
Toulouse: POES and JO BER for Rose Beton
French artists POES and JO BER just completd this new mural for the ROSE BETON Festival in Toulouse, Southern France. They continue their collaboration like they recently did in Marrakech (covered) with a playful storyline about the Epic of Gilgamesh and … Continue reading
Toulouse: Rose Beton Festival – Part 1
Curated by Tilt, this year’s Rose Beton Festival in Toulouse is dedicated to the roots of graffiti and specially New York. So to kick start the three months festival in the pink city, a photographic exhibition held at the oldest art space … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Toulouse
Tagged graffiti, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, Rose Beton, Sylvain Largot, Toulouse
Preview : ROSE BETON Festival (Toulouse)
We are pleased to partner with the ROSE BETON Festival in Toulouse (FR), curated by la Mairie de Toulouse and the 50Cinq. The second edition of the festival is paying tribute to Graffiti, with a selection of 14 international artists. Le Château … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, streets, Toulouse
Tagged Butterfly Art News, butterflyartnews, graffiti, Preview, Rose Beton, Toulouse
Streets: Tracing Morocco with Hendrik ECB Beikirch
We first encountered the work of German artist Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB last year in Toulouse where he completed a large scale monochrome portrait of a Maroccan woman for Mr Freeze Festival (covered). … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Marrakech, streets, Toulouse
Tagged Beikrich, ECB, Hendrik, Jardin Rouge, Montresso Foundation, Toulouse, Tracing Morocco
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Toulouse : Creve Hivernale Exhibition @ Frigo
Initially planned for 4-5-6 December, an exhibition called ‘CREVE HIVERNALE / COPS31 / MARKER V’ in Toulouse has been extended to 11-12 -13 December with a grand finale on 30 December in support of La Cimade (not for profit organisation … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Toulouse
Tagged <++, A4PUTEVIE, Balint Porneczi, Cleangraphics, COPS31, Creve Hivernale, Frigo, migrants, Refugiees, Syrian, Toulouse
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Studio visit: RESO – Toulouse
While in Toulouse, we popped by the studio of French graffiti writer RESO. His graffiti letters and figurative style have adorned walls of numerous cities across the world for the past 20 years, making him one of the key French … Continue reading
Toulouse: 100TAUR new mural for the Dominicans
A surreal encounter between French graffiti artist 100Taur and the Dominicans: for the celebration of the 800th Anniversary of the Order of Preachers , founded in Toulouse (FR), the Dominicans asked lowbrow artist 100TAUR to create a 100 square meters mural … Continue reading
Toulouse: Open Summer Festival
For the 4th year running, the Open Summer Festival invited twenty international artists in Toulouse at the new creative hub Cinquante Cinq / Espace Cobalt. Outside the exhibition space, guests enjoyed live painting sessions with a Graffiti Jam, but also … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Street, streets, Toulouse
Tagged 100taur, Cinquantecinq, graffiti, Katre, Mister Freeze, Open Summer jam, Reso, Tilt, Toulouse
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Studio Visit: 100TAUR (Toulouse)
Following his group shows in the US and recent installation at the Toulouse Museum (FR), we visited the cabinet of curiosities of Low Brow French artist 100taur as he prepares for his upcoming solo show ‘Monsters in my closet’ at the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews/ Studio visits, Paris, Toulouse
Tagged 100taur, closet, in, Low Brow, Monsters, my, Paris, Pop surrealist, Studio visit, Toulouse
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Interview: Tilt
While at the Nuart Festival in Norway, we caught up with French graffiti artist Tilt for a few questions… Where does your artist name come from? I started painting graffiti in 1988 in Toulouse. A graffiti writer named Declic (which … Continue reading
Toulouse: Mr Freeze Nite & Day – Part 2
Following our recent coverage on Mister Freeze Nite & Day (see here) we attended the second place that was revealed at the last minute. The 50cinq features large scale installations, sculptures and murals by international artists. Participating artists include: Sike, Momies, Opium, … Continue reading
Posted in Shows, Toulouse
Tagged 2014, 50cinq, Mister Freeze, Mr Freeze, Nite and Day, Toulouse
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Toulouse: Mr Freeze Nite & Day – Part 1
For the second year running the association Faute O Graff is curating ”Mister Freeze”, an exhibition featuring small gallery artworks to large scale installations. This year the exhibition is taking place in two abandonned places: Le Frigo (“The Fridge”) where the … Continue reading
Toulouse (FR): Memoire Industrielle Hors Serie 3.0 – JOB
Back in 2011, French graffiti writers from Toulouse, namely Dark, Dspri, Keyler, Mikoz, Spazm, Spot and Xerou who are sharing the same passion for abandoned spaces, decided to create a touring exhibition called Memoire Industrielle. Using found objects from various industrial sites across France gathered through … Continue reading
