Art

Semor is a French designer and muralist. With his distorted and labyrinthine universe, mixing figurative and abstract, his compositions are crossed by elements such as architecture, transport, nature, industry, mechanisms... Influenced by the urban spectacle, he recounts situations that blend reality and fiction, through phenomena of accumulation and offbeat scenes, populated by diverse characters and objects. Semor's mazes of images are pretexts for a variety of readings, and call for reflection on our times.

Born in 1988 in the Bordeaux region, he began painting in the early 2000s through graffiti. After working in sculpture and stone-cutting, as well as in a number of art collectives, for the past few years he has devoted himself exclusively to painting, which is nourished by various influences such as art brut, naive art, free figuration... His painting is at once symbolic, synthetic and enigmatic, and strives to retain the prism of childhood's inquisitive, wondering gaze.

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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F2B studied at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris. Freed in his art from all advertising constraints, F2B takes a malicious pleasure in associating and diverting logotypes, icons and other mass-market emblems. Attracted by painting and collage, he nevertheless finds the strength of his creations in new print media. In 2005, his work turned to brand consumption, in the "Neo Pop Art" tradition. Two fundamental elements guide his creations: the use of the female body to sell anything and everything, and the power of logotypes in our urban environment.

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.

In 1963, he entered Santiago's experimental art school, graduating in 1967. There he met Fernando Marcos and Osvaldo Reyes, and began his apprenticeship in muralism, influenced by artists such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1969, he took part in a mural creation group during presidential candidate Salvador Allende's campaign and joined the Ramona Parra Brigade, with whom he would continue to work for several years.

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Madame, formerly Madame Moustache, pseudonym of Aurélie Ludivine Bidault, born August 1, 1982, is a French visual artist, street artist and collagist from Tours, Indre-Et-Loire. Born into a family of artists, with a degree in literature, acting and stage design7, Madame turned to the visual arts, sculpting, painting and collage in 20108, using images from the early 20th century to the 1970s. In 2022, Madame will be in residence at the Cerfav in Vannes-le-Châtel, with the support of the DRAC.

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.