Toulouse. With the “Banlieuz’arts” exhibition, the Reynerie reveals its talents
Wednesday, at the Reynerie Social Center, took place the opening of a unique exhibition, that of the “Banlieuz’arts de la Reynerie”. This unprecedented artistic and cultural project, carried out in partnership with the residents’ newspaper “Reynerie Miroir”, the Reynerie Social Center and the Cultural Centre, required 6 months of collective preparation. It brings together around forty artists from 20 to 91 years old, amateurs, emerging or professionals, inhabitants of La Reynerie or its surroundings. Photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, poems, texts, quilling, caning, weaving, video, dance and music, a multitude of talents and practices that testify to the artistic richness and social, generational and cultural diversity of the piece. “We wanted to take advantage of our spacious premises to highlight all the talents that our territory abounds in and show a positive image of this district”, explains Odile Bartolo, director of the Social Center. Talents already honored by another resident of La Reynerie, Annie Conter, herself a watercolourist and coordinator of the Journal “Reynerie Miroir” which assigned them four issues in 2021. “Thanks to this project, isolated artists, young or less young were able to meet and forge links between them, she.