Indésirables

Le Mans, Quartier horizon, 2020

Dans le cadre du festival Plein Champs Off, la municipalité du Mans m’a sollicité afin de réaliser des peintures murales dans le nouveau quartier “Horizon”, occupant l’ancienne friche du site militaire (GIAT). Depuis 2018, une partie du chantier de la ZAC de la cartoucherie est à l’arrêt suite à la découverte de la présence d’une petite plante nommée Hélianthème Faux alysson.

Dans ce monde si brutal il est fascinant qu’une petite plante insignifiante puisse parfois mettre à l’arrêt tout un programme immobilier. Cela m’a donné envie de travailler sur les plantes dites indésirables en m’inspirant librement de planches de botaniques. Et de faire un parallèle avec le graffiti, qui lui aussi, indésirable dans l’espace urbain, prends sa place là le vide s’installe.

Photographie ©Alain Amet

Photographie ©Alain Amet

As part of the Plein Champs Off festival, the city of Le Mans commissioned me to create mural paintings in the new “Horizon” district, which occupies the former wasteland of the military site (GIAT). Since 2018, part of the construction site of the ZAC de la Cartoucherie has been at a standstill following the discovery of the presence of a small plant named Hélianthème Faux alysson.

I found it fascinating in this world so brutal that a little insignificant plant can sometimes stop an entire property development. This has made me decide to work on the so-called undesirable plants, freely inspired by botanical plates. And to establish a parallel with graffiti, which is also undesirable in the urban space, where the void takes place.

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Impregnated by the practice of graffiti, which he began in 1990 in Rennes, Brez develops a painting that seems to use codes from cubism, constructivism or futurism. However, his graphic language is more certainly the heritage of the research of a letter style, a quest intimately related to the world of graffiti writing. Between abstraction and figuration, his In Situ paintings are inspired by the panorama while playing with the surface of the chosen places. The workshop work feeds on the forms inherited from graffiti and adapts to the limited frame of the canvas. He feeds again the painting in the public space in a permanent coming and going.