This year edition of the Nuit Blanche opening on the 4th October in Paris is celebrating Street Art with an open air museum in some districts. Fresh from the Nuart festival (covered here), Spanish artist Borondo has started painting a large mural in the 13th district of Paris.
Stay tuned for further info and pics about the Nuit Blanche here
A new performance in the fantastic Giants saga signed Royal de Luxe took place in Nantes from 7 to 9 June 2014. On this occasion, Royal de Luxe, the street theatre company known around the world for its giant marionettes, created two giants, a Mere Grand and a Little Giant. They took audiences on long promenades through streets, neighbourhoods, and city centre of Nantes.
“The grandmother of Nantes” is 7.50 m tall, with a shoe size 276, and she told us tales drawn from her memories or the history of the city. Aged 85 with Breton and Irish origins, she has a real character, both fearless, mischievous and full of tenderness. We saw her sitting in her wheelchair, walking with a cane, drink some whiskey after her nap and even spit and fart in the street … The Little Giant was dancing in the streets, sleeping and meeting with Mere Grand.
Monday afternoon, countless onlookers crowded around the Anne-de-Bretagne bridge, under a blazing sun, attended a rather happy nautical parade shaped burial. Grandmother, closely followed by Little Giant, both lying in a bed, left by the river, in a last goodbye, but it is said that they could return.
View the full set of pics here
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, Astro, Tonce, Tanc, Wany, Zepha, Mlle Boo, Lek, Sowat, Pro176, Zest, Landry, Fode, Scred, Reso, Sherio, Katre, Tilt, Demon, Costa, F.Bel, Gris1, Legz, Zoer, Case, Wow123, Velvet, MissVan, Ditno, Ciro, Oko, Panks, Dely, and Stop.
View the full set of pics here
Mister Freeze Nite & Day
50CINQ
55 avenue Louis Breguet
31400 Toulouse
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 first exhibtion took place in 2013 with small scale artworks, and large scale installations in a secret place.
For this new episode of Mister Freeze Nite & Day, street and graffiti artists are playing on both fields and showing their diversity of tools and techniques.
Participating artists include: Sike, Momies, Opium, Astro, Tonce, Tanc, Wany, Zepha, Mlle Boo, Lek, Sowat, Pro176, Zest, Landry, Fode, Scred, Reso, Sherio, Katre, Tilt, Demon, Costa, F.Bel, Gris1, Legz, Zoer, Case, Wow123, Velvet, MissVan, Ditno, Ciro, Oko, Panks, Dely, Stop.
Stay tuned for the part 2
View the full set of pics from the Frigo here
Mister Freeze
Until 1 June 2014
Frigo
378 route de Launaguet
31140 Launaguet
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 the different stages of the project, artists have reconstructed a large scale modelling version of an abandoned factory.
For the 8th edition of this touring exhibition, Memoire Industrielle has taken over the former JOB paper factory (famously illustrated by A. Mucha during the Art Nouveau period for its cigarette paper). The show also features artworks and a series of prints on original papers issued from the JOB factory with two special guests: Korail and Dran.
View the full set of pics here
Memoire Industrielle Hors Serie 3.0
12- 18 May 2014
Espace JOB
105 Route de Blagnac, Toulouse
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