Intercommunal open-air street-art museum

20 points of interest

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  Architecture

  Catalogue à Ciel Ouvert [Open-air catalogue]

  Opposite the town hall and all along Quai Lucien Clergue, you can see the cones illustrated by our guest artists. Can you guess which artist is behind each image ?

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  La Femme Forte [The strong woman] - Sancko Black

  Bessèges, the town of the Strong Woman

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  Le Chat [The cat] - Broko

  Brokovich from the Iretge collective works spontaneously, drawing inspiration from the world of illustration and masks.

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  Le chat à l'usine [The cat in the factory] - Mister Ateek

  An artist from northern France living in the Gard, Mister Ateek comes from graffiti art and with this fresco gives a new life to the industrial chimneys that were dotted all over town.

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  Le Bateau [The boat] - Nubian

  An artist from Montpellier, Nubian uses walls like canvases. His dream-like style touches on the history of Bessèges, which used to supply the merchant navy in Marseille and the dockyard in Toulon with coal.

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  Soleil Soleil [Sun sun] - Kashink

  An artist from the Gard and a neighbour of the MI.A.O.U., Kashink pays homage to the singer Dalida, whom her mother had seen onstage in Bessèges when she was young. Soleil Soleil is a song from the 1980s. The artist’s very characteristic style can be seen here: two pairs of eyes and a thin moustache ornament her characters, which are always very colourful.

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  Imagine - Tito and Mulk

  Tito and Mulk put themselves into the picture at the bottom of the wall as well as three other characters who exude a whole world of references to the universe that the two artists have built over a decade of collaboration. Here are manga and comic characters, elements of pop and geek culture, and many things to read, such as the Albert Einstein quotation on creativity and intelligence...

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  Tryptique [Triptych] - V Will, K1000, Kashink

  Children’s book illustrator Virginie Will, comic-book artist K1000 bédéiste and street artist Kashink got together to spontaneously realise this triptych, which is full of humour.

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  Retour aux Source [Back to the roots] - Amty, Ateek

  Amty is a graffiti artist from Lille and friend of Mister Ateek’s, who is also from northern France but living in Bessèges. Their reunion produced a piece of graffiti art that is representative of an emblematic street art movement. 

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  Architecture

  Kinkajou - Margay

  The Kinkajou is an emblematic animal of the Mayan jungle in Mexico, where the artist Margay lives. Unable to digest the stones of fruit that it ingests, it disseminates them as it moves around, unintentionally planting trees where barn owls nest . It thus contributes to reforestation.

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  Le Tigre et la Cigale [The tiger and the cicada] - Nhobi

  Nhobi, a Brazilian artist living in Marseille, is particularly preoccupied by the forest and the spirits that populate it. He creates frescoes in which fauna and vegetation are omnipresent. This fresco refers to the devastation of the forest and especially the burning of the Amazon rainforest.

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  History

  Origines - Margay

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  Architecture

  Eldéna, Ténaïde et Théodas se baignent en eau douce [Eldéna, Ténaïde and Théodas bathe in fresh water] – Le Long

  Street and video artist Le Long pays homage to the majesty of animals – animals whose imminent extinction he deplores. He wants to make culture accessible to everyone, “make beautiful things” and, whenever possible, “put a smile on the faces of passers-by".

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  Déconstruction végétale [Vegetal deconstruction] - ABNS

  In his paintings, ABNS, an artist from Provence, tackles subjects like ecology using vegetal trompe l’œil.

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  Fauna

  Ciel apaisé - K.Yoô

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  Flora

  Demoiselle Artémis - Mademoiselle MM

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  Espirito Volatile - Adec and Nhobi

  An artist from the Gard department and member of the collective Iretge, Adec uses a roller to paint frescoes whose colour scheme and play of lines make a spectacular whole, here a bird. Nhobi, a Brazilian artist living in Marseille, adds the vegetal touch full of mysterious spirit.

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  Jour de fête [Party day] - Supocaos, Soukoz, Isaac Barreda

  A fresco made with six hands, totally spontaneously. It combines Isaac Barreda’s colourful influences from Peru, which are the signature of the Nîmes artist the Supo from Supocaos and Soukoz’s ladders.

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  Architecture

  Le Renard bleu [The blue fox] - Broko

  Brokovich from the Iretge collective works spontaneously, drawing inspiration from the world of illustration and masks.