Drawing for the body of the tram Citadis 302
Festival Echappées d’art
2024 Angers, France
Les villes invisibles (the invisible cities)
A drawing that moves around the city. The one you wait for, run after, sit into. Which opens and closes. That accelerates, slows down, makes a stop, takes you out, brings you home.
Manifesto curated this year edition of the Echappées d'art festival in Angers and reached out to imagine the decoration of the tram Citadis 302.
Inspired by the observations recorded during my stay in the city, the history hidden in its streets and museum collections, the exchanges with the inhabitants and a phone call with a tram driver, several portraits of the city emerged.
I started drawing having in mind a short, textless comic, with no beginning nor end, with eventually some moving parts (in correspondance of the opening and closing of the tram doors). It told the story of a landscape, imaginary or not, as the one the tram crosses many times during the day, from one end of the city to the other, with no possible deviation, as in a loop.
In the middle of the vehicle, a moon faced caracther holds a sun mask.
Day and night go by as on a merry go round, a child is born, another gets lost.
A drawing that moves around the city. The one you wait for, run after, sit into. Which opens and closes. That accelerates, slows down, makes a stop, takes you out, brings you home.
Manifesto curated this year edition of the Echappées d'art festival in Angers and reached out to imagine the decoration of the tram Citadis 302.
Inspired by the observations recorded during my stay in the city, the history hidden in its streets and museum collections, the exchanges with the inhabitants and a phone call with a tram driver, several portraits of the city emerged.
I started drawing having in mind a short, textless comic, with no beginning nor end, with eventually some moving parts (in correspondance of the opening and closing of the tram doors). It told the story of a landscape, imaginary or not, as the one the tram crosses many times during the day, from one end of the city to the other, with no possible deviation, as in a loop.
In the middle of the vehicle, a moon faced caracther holds a sun mask.
Day and night go by as on a merry go round, a child is born, another gets lost.
The central caracther has a moon face holding a sun mask, symbolizing the passage of time over the landscape.
Rinding a horse on a side and a swan on the other, as on a merry-go-round, empazising the loop which the tram covers over and over.
The landscape wraps the vehicule, portraying the city of Angers from the suburbs to the city center.
It animates with the opening and closing of the doors which - at every stop - adds a dynamism to every scene.
Permanent installation in the public space
Mural drawing on azulejos
Bienal da Maia, Porto PT
2017
After work play
Contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Portuguese azulejos.
The installation is at entrance of an old factory, now converted in start-up incubator.
Contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Portuguese azulejos.
Realised in collaboration with the artisan Joaquim Pombal, the vectorial illustrations are transferred on the azulejos by hand, using the stencil technique, which allows a precise application of the drawing while giving an organic touch.
The installation is at entrance of an old factory, now converted in start-up incubator.
The five wall drawings tell the story of a day in the life of a factory worker, from sun rise to sun set, questioning the balance between time for work and time for play and how the two are intertwined.
Every wall measures 5 x 3 meters and is composed by 500 tiles. 2500 tiles have been painted by hand to build the entire installation !
Every wall measures 5 x 3 meters and is composed by 500 tiles. 2500 tiles have been painted by hand to build the entire installation !
Drawings for hand weaved rugs
Collaboration with the brand Mum’s
2019
Erikona Rugs
A carpet is the primary unit to define a domestic space, a home.
In these nomadic times, the ladies laying on the rugs become familiar presences that follow us from home to home.
Mum’s is an engage and sustainable Finnish brand, weaving carpets on 150 yo looms in Uttar Pradesh, in a village of weavers.
Each piece is made on order and is unique: the weaver interprets and traces the original drawing in his own way, tranlsating it in a collaborative piece of some sort.
A carpet is the primary unit to define a domestic space, a home.
In these nomadic times, the ladies laying on the rugs become familiar presences that follow us from home to home.
Mum’s is an engage and sustainable Finnish brand, weaving carpets on 150 yo looms in Uttar Pradesh, in a village of weavers.
Each piece is made on order and is unique: the weaver interprets and traces the original drawing in his own way, tranlsating it in a collaborative piece of some sort.
Ongoing collaboration with the object designer François Bonnot
Since 2019
Bureau Idéal
Bureau Idéal plays with objects and spaces, their narratives and decorations, imagining new ways of living, reading and consuming a story on a daily basis.
We live surrounded by objects and spaces which often hide anecdotes that time and usage have contributed to erase or forget. Bureau Idéal brings the stories to life, inviting to read the surfaces as through the pages of a book or the frames of an animation movie.
François Bonnot (designer) and Giada Ganassin (visual artist) met at the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) where they both graduated from a Master in Design.
Since 2020 they experiment and have fun with different building techniques and materials such as clay, wood, alluminium, combining their designing, making and decoration skills and fascinations. The results of their collaboration are unique, ingegnous and poetic objects.
Bureau Idéal plays with objects and spaces, their narratives and decorations, imagining new ways of living, reading and consuming a story on a daily basis.
We live surrounded by objects and spaces which often hide anecdotes that time and usage have contributed to erase or forget. Bureau Idéal brings the stories to life, inviting to read the surfaces as through the pages of a book or the frames of an animation movie.
François Bonnot (designer) and Giada Ganassin (visual artist) met at the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) where they both graduated from a Master in Design.
Since 2020 they experiment and have fun with different building techniques and materials such as clay, wood, alluminium, combining their designing, making and decoration skills and fascinations. The results of their collaboration are unique, ingegnous and poetic objects.
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