Art at the Marty Hotel

Created in 2012, the Monkey Bird Crew (MBC) collective is made up of two young artists from Bordeaux who are Temor and Blow. Stencil artists renowned for the precision of their line and the finesse of their cutting, entirely done by hand, they specialize in representations of metaphysical architectures where the Bird ("Blow") and the Monkey ("Temor") cohabit. These animals mischievously remind us of our own human preoccupations, halfway between the desire for freedom and elevation (symbolized by the Bird) and the material and bodily obsessions from which man cannot free himself (the Monkey).

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Born in 1970 in Bègles, France, Xavier Jambon studied Plastic Arts at the University of Bordeaux for 4 years before deciding to devote his life to the service of fine art schools, teaching an unfortunately forgotten art form, that of our great masters (Michelangelo, Balthus, Hopper...). Since then, Xavier Jambon has never stopped exploring subjects and techniques, offering scenes of life that he scrutinizes closely. Whatever the subject, emotions and reactions are the order of the day, as Xavier draws us out of our entrenchments and invites us to observe and feel. Scenes of fights, parties, assaults or the beach... his gaze remains incisive, disturbing and bewitching.

EvazéSir, French artist duo. Eva & Sir were born in 1984, and since 2009 have formed a couple known as "street artists". Sir, a self-taught artist, started out in graffiti, painting in disused spaces with the No Rules Corp collective. He then developed a passion for stencils and the use of motifs. Eva followed a more academic path at art school, concentrating on the study of black-and-white figures and questioning their role in society. Two visual identities meet, realism in brush painting combines with an urban graphic style in spray paint.

Ardpg was born in 1980 and began painting via graffiti in the late 1990s. In the early 2000s, when graffiti had not yet become a trend in the art world, the artist began working on canvas. In parallel with his art history studies, he developed his concept of collaging paper on canvas, spray-painting on these elements. He thus combines his passion for graffiti and art history with his knowledge of the artistic milieu of the great masters to compose new creations. Ardpg seeks to color our daily lives and awaken our appreciation of urban art as an integral part of our environment. He is not attached to the term "street art", which for him is too simplistic. He prefers to be described as a creator of our everyday urban life.

As an artist and designer, Ërell experiments with the ephemeral appropriation of urban space. His practice has its roots in the graffiti scene in Bordeaux in the early 2000s. Beginning in 2006, drawing inspiration from minimal art, urban art, and organic design, he simplified his signature style into a basic geometric shape: the hexagon, which he then breaks down into smaller parts. His compositions incorporate typographic principles: variations in alignment, interplay between forms and counterforms, and a balance between solid and negative space. Created using manufactured tools (cookie cutters, stencils, printing plates), they appear in urban space as a form of graphic “contamination”—an abstract and repetitive presence.

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Bault focuses on video art, graphic design, and illustration. Having never lost his passion for drawing, he has spent several years developing a cabinet of curiosities populated by monsters, grotesque characters, and polluted environments. The creatures are often missing limbs, disproportionately large, and unfinished. A contemporary phantasmagoria, the forms flow, overlap, and intertwine, creating cave-like paintings.

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In his work, Clément develops several graphic and semiotic styles—sometimes very distinct—that he attempts to bring together, like so many facets of a single personality. His drawings can be thoughtful or spontaneous; his portraits can be rooted in reality or drawn from dreamlike imagery—but always with a constant desire to play with opposites and bring out the unexpected. His favorite realms—music, street art, typography, and cultural fusion—are all themes that inspire his creations.

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Noon is a visual artist whose work moves freely between urban spaces and the studio. Inspired by nature and Art Nouveau, she has developed a graphic, colorful, and resolutely geometric world, where the interpretation of reality takes precedence over its faithful representation. Whether through murals, paintings, illustrations, or digital creations, she explores these mediums with curiosity and freedom, creating landscapes where color vibrates and form shapes the imagination.

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RNST explores and experiments with urban art in forms as diverse as graffiti, poster design, collage, and stenciling. Beginning in 2009, he officially returned to the streets with an intensive body of work involving stencils and the application of screen-printed images. His studio serves as an outpost for the street, where he blends techniques, colors, and genres. RNST’s discourse and work are imbued with two constants: provocation and romanticism.

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Convinced that art is an outlet, Davys Jeune has returned to his earliest passions by devoting himself fully to painting. His current artistic work is expressed primarily through charcoal drawings in which he explores the body in its most essential form, using a dense, continuous black line that brings forth powerful figures straddling the boundary between human and animal.

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