VIDEO Toulouse: the old garage hosts the most anticipated urban art exhibition of the new school year
The urban art exhibition Lay Up invests for its second edition a former garage, near Fer à Cheval. An ephemeral place which until October 30 will bring together around twenty artists from different backgrounds.
Before there were several editions of Mister Freeze, the Cobalt space in Montaudran, Hors Ligne in a former supermarket in Saint-Cyprien then LayUp in 2021. A 1200m2 building, located on boulevard des Minimes, had then been transformed into a monumental exhibition. This time, it is in the district of Fer à Cheval that Loïc Mondé has found a new ephemeral place to invest. For a month, from October 1 to 30, the former Speedy garage on Allées Charles-de-Fitte, which will soon be destroyed, will serve as the setting for the “Garage by LayUp”. Around twenty artists, this second edition organized with the Jacques Constans Foundation, will present over 500m2 different facets of contemporary urban art.
Reso, Miss Kat, The Blind…
Monumental when it comes to frescoes, more intimate when he expresses himself on canvas or in sculpture with Gauthier Genet alias Sherio. Some works, painted on the walls of the outer courtyard will disappear with the place. “I like the idea of an event in an ephemeral place, like graffiti. Those who miss it will see the next edition. This created an expectation and allows visitors to be taken to places they do not know”, explains Loïc Mondé. For this 2022 exhibition, the founder of LayUp brought in the Montpellier artist Maye with whom he created the Bergère fresco, opposite the Saint-Agne metro station, or even Reso and Mademoiselle Kat, two well-known signatures from the Toulouse scene.
Temponok, Nasty, Momies and Stéphane Carricondo, who present a complex work combining graffiti techniques, African art and anatomical drawings, also answered the call. The Nantes native The Blind, creator of Braille graffiti, presents a work that can be seen and touched. To understand it, you need to be at least two people, sighted and blind. Since 2005, from Chernobyl to Brussels in
Passing through Venice and Senegal, this “artivist” relentlessly questions, in light or shadow, the accessibility of art. On the facade of the Palais de Justice in Nantes, his graffiti was taken for a long time as an official translation before being removed. He had actually written “Not seen, not taken”.