🏆 Nomination: Best Of 2022

Ciclope

<div>Project for Seek Dundalk.<br>Argentinian Ciclope was isnpired by Thomas Coultner, who was an Irish physician, botanist and explorer. His passion for knowledge and discovery is thought to have been inspired by this father Samuel Coulter who had a remarkable collection of books on exploration, agriculture and bee-keeping, history, religion, and the Irish language.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>"My hands touch your stem and I breathe,<br>I recall my years in distant lands,<br>the quest burning my eyes, my soul.<br><br>Nostalgia, wild and pure,<br>of fields and faces and crossed seas.<br><br>They say you bear my name, but I think:<br>there is no name that encloses or describes,<br>the sun that in your chest burns the snow that dwells in your flower.<br><br>If a garden is memory and remembering is our watering,<br>I will keep myself from drowning, my beautiful white poppy, in your recollection. "</div>

Crew

The Coulter Poppys

<div>La semilla crece, aunque no la veas. Lleva hoy tu risa y tus ojos dicen. La raiz se expande y se aferra fuerte a esta tierra que es tu cuerpo. Sus manos (que antes fueron tuyas) descubren los surcos que abriste en tiempos de antaño sudando esperanza, labrando un futuro.</div><div>Quien cultiva sueños, cosecha destinos.</div><div>La semilla crece, aunque no la veas.</div><div>Brotará tu nombre y llevará savia a todas sus ramas que buscan el cielo con sus verdes ojos.</div><div>Y mecerá el viento aquellas sus risas, que dicen, tan tuyas.</div><div>Hoy que florecen sueños.</div><div>Hoy que ya son destino.</div><div><br></div><div>Autor: Nico Monti</div><div><br>&nbsp;</div>

Hunter

Raíz

<div>Flowers, like a promise, sprout in the garden inside my mind.<br>They are the dreams shaping times to come.<br>Sow today, calmly,<br>Because those flowers from the future,<br>Will be ours.</div>

Flowers of the Future

<div>La nature reprend ses droits autour de la salle du Patro. Après la magnifique fresque réalisée par l’artiste grec O’Taxis l’année dernière, le duo argentin Ciclope a fait naître ses fleurs imaginaires sur les murs de la salle qui a vu passé tant de familles boulonnaises.<br>Une magnifique nature enchanteresse et imaginaire. Voilà le premier sentiment qui envahit le spectateur qui pénètre dans l’univers de la salle du Patro. Cette œuvre signée par le duo argentin Ciclope vient enrichir d’un nouveau tableau le musée à ciel ouvert boulonnais.<br><br>À deux pas de la fresque du Grec O’Taxis, dont la nature impressionniste a pris corps au numéro 150 de la rue du Camp de Droite, l’inspiration s’est imposée d’elle-même pour le duo. « Nous sommes vraiment admiratifs de l’œuvre de Taxis que l’on considère comme un maître dans le street art » confie Maria Pilar Tolosa et Julian Facundo Razquin. « Ses couleurs sont magnifiques. Nous nous sommes donc inspirés de sa création pour donner une cohérence à l’ensemble et prolonger cette nature luxuriante. On peut dire que notre mur est un zoom sur la nature créée par Taxis ».<br><br>Pour aller plus loin dans leur démarche, les deux jeunes argentins ont cherché à mieux connaître la flore spécifique à la France. « La nature est le fil conducteur de toutes nos œuvres. Pour ce mur, nous avons effectué pas mal de recherches sur internet pour connaître les fleurs qui poussent spécifiquement en France. Nous avons trouvé différentes plantes que nous avons ensuite redessinés dans notre style ».<br><br>C’est ainsi que se mêle les verts, le bleu et une pointe de violet pour composer une nature fantastique et imaginaire qui invite à la rêverie en plein milieu de la rue du Camp de Droite. « Nous ne voulons pas être réalistes mais nous cherchons à créer un monde imaginaire autour de la nature » reprennent les artistes. « Notre style est organique. La simplicité de tous les éléments se combine et se complète pour former un tout. L’objectif est que le passant, le public, se sente bien en regardant notre mur. Qu’il y trouve quelque chose d’apaisant, de relaxant et qui stimule son imagination. »<br>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br>Nature takes back its rights around the Patro room. After the magnificent fresco created by the Greek artist O'Taxis last year, the Argentinian duo Ciclope brought their imaginary flowers to life on the walls of the room which has seen so many Boulogne families pass through.<br>A magnificent, enchanting and imaginary nature. This is the first feeling that invades the spectator who enters the world of the Patro room. This work signed by the Argentinian duo Ciclope enriches the Boulogne open-air museum with a new painting.<br><br>A stone's throw from the fresco by the Greek O'Taxis, whose impressionist nature took shape at number 150 rue du Camp de Droite, the inspiration imposed itself on the duo. “We really admire the work of Taxis, who is considered a master of street art,” confides Maria Pilar Tolosa and Julian Facundo Razquin. “Its colors are magnificent. We were therefore inspired by its creation to give coherence to the whole and prolong this lush nature. We can say that our wall is a zoom on the nature created by Taxis.”<br><br>To take their approach further, the two young Argentinians sought to better understand the flora specific to France. “Nature is the common thread in all our works. For this wall, we did a lot of research on the internet to find out the flowers that grow specifically in France. We found different plants which we then redesigned in our style.”<br><br>This is how greens, blue and a touch of purple combine to compose a fantastic and imaginary nature which invites you to daydream in the middle of rue du Camp de Droite. “We do not want to be realistic but we seek to create an imaginary world around nature” continue the artists. “Our style is organic. The simplicity of all the elements combines and complements each other to form a whole. The objective is that the passerby, the public, feels good when looking at our wall. May he find something soothing, relaxing and something that stimulates his imagination. »</div>

Street Art Boulogne Sur Mer 

<p>Saint Jean du Doigt is located near the town of Morlaix -Bretagne , it was a surprise to meet this area of France for the first time , the people were very warm is a town of 600 habitants . Our mural was the first in town so they were very attentive for our arrival. Every neighbor greeted us and was very friendly in the days we painted. It was very beautiful to find so much happiness, they were days of many friendships. The mural is inspired by the native flora with colors of a sea blue .</p>

La Flor Azul 

Untitled

<p>Cette fresque a été réalisée dans le cadre du <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.trompe-l-oeil.info/Trompeloeil/rechersarch.php?mot=Capsfestival"><strong><em>Caps festival </em></strong></a>, organisé par l’association Co42 en partenariat avec rentingArt et la ville de Clichy. L’objectif est de faire découvrir la culture urbaine et l’art contemporain au grand public.</p><p>Ils commentent la fresque avec ce poème :<br><br><em>Prenez soin de vos fleurs aujourd'hui, éternel jardinier,<br>que l'hiver est revenu avant l'heure,<br>apportant avec lui cette vieille peste que vous aviez vaincue.<br>N'as-tu rien appris, hiver insensé et cruel ?<br>Si vous recouvrez les fleurs de glace perpétuelle,<br>Vous ne reverrez plus jamais le printemps.</em></p><p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________</p><p>This fresco was created as part of the Caps festival, organized by the Co42 association in partnership with rentingArt and the city of Clichy. The goal is to introduce urban culture and contemporary art to the general public.</p><p>They comment on the fresco with this poem:</p><p>Take care of your flowers today, eternal gardener, because winter is back before its time, bringing with it the old plague you have defeated already.<br><br>Haven’t you learned anything, foolish and cruel winter?<br>If you cover the flowers with perpetual ice, you will never see spring again.</p>

Caps Festival 

Circuito Mural 

La Seyne Sur Mer 

<p>Garden of foam</p><p>Sometimes, liquid moon, you bathe my flowers</p><p>With sweet shadows that tremble in the wind. </p><p>If the air could bring me your voice</p><p>Like a whisper of the sea on my chest,</p><p>Perhaps the pain would not twist its root</p><p>So profound, so deep in my flesh. </p><p>And between the branches of this dark garden</p><p>The smiles that your mouth wove would sprout,</p><p>Like foam and wind on the waves of oblivion.</p>

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