On the wall at the entrance to the village, a giant drawing becomes like a telling tool for all passers-by.
Since the beginning of the week, the wall of the cultural center La Négrette, in extension of the rural home, has become a real spectacle. In a few brushstrokes, the lines take a walk and lead to a farandole of colors. In this fascinating expression, it is the artist Yann Chatelin who offers us this immersion in a particularly collaborative art.
“I proposed a visual to the municipality which validated this idea, it is a particularly significant symbol of culture on this wall”, indicates the artist, who has been perched on his platform since Monday.
This wonderful graphic design is part of a street art project initiated this year by the municipality, especially for young audiences. “Several actions are deployed in the village, it’s great because schoolchildren and college students participate, it creates social ties and interest in this practice”, underlines Yann Chatelin. The artist, who is not at his first attempt, has represented a dancer in an ephemeral movement in the center of a red circle which brings a striking volume. “I’m working on every detail, and this weekend is an opportunity to take full advantage of the visual.” On the practical side, you don’t have to be dizzy to refine the last touches at the top of the design which culminates at almost 14 meters in height.
Urban graphics
Between bound and unbound, fracture and graphics, repetitions and entanglements, the love of the calligraphic letter, real or dreamed lines are at the heart of his creations. The dancer appears, here at the entrance to Labastide-Saint-Pierre, and the production has become a real spectacle. “Many passers-by or residents came to see this week, some sat down and talked while watching me progress gradually,” laughs the artist, who was born in Calais in 1980.
Today, Yann Chatelin lives in Béarn, after having spent more than fifteen years in Morocco. He discovered drawing at the age of 15, inspired by graffiti which he practices intensively. By advancing little by little, to the rhythm of the rolls he unrolls on the height of this imperturbable wall, Yann Chatelin carves his mark in Labastide-Saint-Pierre, like a letter, a word or a sentence, vector of meaning and knowledge. . Media of collective and individual memory now at the center of the Bastidian world.
“It’s really great! It takes incredible talent, patience and courage to achieve such a result. Hats off to the artist!”, points out a passer-by.
Mirror of a personality, the dancer who appears at the Négrette has taken off. She will draw many passers-by into her grace every day.