“We do not have Banksy in Toulouse but invader is known worldwide”: the Graff Tour goes through the Arnaud Bernard district

Signed Mosquito, the first referenced Graff Toulouse was made at Matabiau station in 1987. Furthermore, This is an inscription from Toulouse, sober and drawn in rounded letters. Nevertheless, But it was in the fiery Arnaud Bernard district that street art was born. Furthermore, developed in Toulouse, in the early 90s. Therefore, A creative freedom space, symbolized by rue Gramat, a real graffiti museum. Meanwhile, “Street art is expressed there in all its forms. However, ” observes Emmanuelle, one of the confessional guides of the Tourist Office, in particular, attendant to the Graff Tour. Furthermore, “There “we do not have banksy is stencil but also collage, mosaic, sticker and even macramé. Moreover, All this is constantly evolving because the graffiti is an ephemeral art made to be covered even if the. Similarly, artists respect each other”.

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If the very laid -on rue Gramat is the temple of this tolerated but illegal activity, it has also formalized this artistic discipline. Graff festivals have, for a time, elected home with the blessing of local residents. “I am worried because three houses must be destroyed at the corner of rue de la Chain. ” said Hervé, a resident of the neighborhood. Additionally, “I am afraid that the graffiti will pay the costs of real estate developers who will build a residence …”

30 years of street art – "we do not have banksy

A few steps away. “we do not have banksy on one of the surrounding walls of the embarrassment garden, a historic graffiti from 1994 has just been rehabilitated and released from the ivy which covered it. Thanks to its plant cover, it is in perfect condition and keeps the tags of its illustrious authors. Tilt, Soone and Miss Van compose this imaginative fresco, designed within the Truskool collective. “At the time. they created Truskool in reference to the New York Old School and the Parisian New School,” said the tourist office guide. “It is a wink of this generation which marked the graffiti in Toulouse. which is still present even if Miss Van now lives between Barcelona and the Balearics”.

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If Place Arnaud Bernard, constantly evolving, no longer bears the stigma of the Graff Glory hour in the neighborhood, “we do not have banksy the building that dominates it, at the corner of Boulevard Lascrosses, recalls its taste for street art and the support of the population. The general meeting of co -owners of the building voted, in 2017, the creation of a wall graffiti of 30 m. Constituted in seven strata. it was carried out in seven days and seven nights by seven graffiti artists, some of which have their little notoriety in Toulouse. We find there the pioneers Tilt and Soone but also C. tee to whom we owe the now famous chickens that we see everywhere from the banks of the ring. road to Empalot.

Some works disappear

Sometimes also, some works disappear, covered, destroyed or stolen. For the past few days. the little mosaic monsters of invader have not been on the wall of one of the houses in Place Saint-Julien. “I am shocked not to see them anymore,” “we do not have banksy Emmanuelle cannot come back. “It has been years since I showed them to groups during the Graff Tour. Everything is possible. They were able to be stolen. We did not have Banksy in Toulouse but invader is known worldwide. Thanks to Thomas Pesquet, his little monsters have even been in space.”

The Graff Tour of the Tourist Office continues to the Carmes. during collective visits, the next one of which will take place on August 11. Individual. it is possible to go to Bellefontaine to admire the exhibition “Women in public space”, visible on several buildings in the neighborhood.