Terres-Neuvas

Les terre-neuvas sont les pêcheurs qui, du xvie siècle au xxe siècle, partaient chaque année des côtes européennes pour pêcher la morue sur les grands Bancs de Terre-Neuve, au large du Canada. Cette pêche a pris fin à cause de la raréfaction du poisson à la fin du xxe siècle due à la surpêche.

Cette peinture, réalisée au dos du musée des terres-neuvas de Saint-Malo, à l’occasion de la cinquième biennale d’art urbain à Saint-Malo, évoque cette pêche qui fût longtemps l’une des ressources principales de ce port Breton.

The terre-neuvas were the fishermen who, from the 16th to the 20th century, set out each year from the European coasts to fish for cod on the large Banks of Newfoundland, off the Canadian coast. This fishery came to an end due to the scarcity of fish in the late 20th century as a consequence of overfishing.

This painting, made on the back of the Terre Neuvas Museum in Saint-Malo, on the occasion of the fifth urban art Biennial in Saint-Malo, evokes this fishing which was for a long time one of the main activities of this Breton port.

Brez 72 Tenage kicks 2022

photos : Alaint Amet

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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.