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    Les artistes toulousains

    • SHERIO

      Sherio alias Gauthier Genet discovers the graffiti in 1998. After years of painting the walls, he got interested into photography, but without putting aside his first passion. Initially focused on portrait and nude, the artist later developed a large-scale project to the quasi mystical: the icosahedron.

      The intelligence of the project is to group, then everything that makes sense for Gauthier Genet is to know mankind and the ephemeral, through a photographic work modeled on the idea of the Land Art. The volume clearly positioned in a flow and outlook dynamic, a metaphor for the ephemeral. The icosahedron, indestructible structure by its perfect proportions incorporating the golden number, remains a witness to the transience of the life surrounding it.

    • RESO

      Reso (Soer)  is a symbolic French graffiti writer of the “ Wild style ”. He is a respected artist, born in Toulouse and present in our cities since 20 years now. His impressive mural work alternates lettering, characters and realistic scenes, and is regularly advanced by specialized publications. Always active, as much by the quantity than the quality of his artistic walls, Reso is a major name of the graffiti scene. Beyond his visuals, but also by his authentic commitment, he is a key figure of urban meetings as a graffiti Specialist, who is called in Europe, Asia, and Latin America as well as in the Middle East to participate and even organize graffiti meetings.

      He goes through graffiti jams, international festivals and European projects where he implements his talents as a consultant in graffiti art. Thanks to his human qualities and his professionalism, Reso has been in partnership with most of the biggest names in the graffiti world. Through his personal work on mobile supports, Reso has been approached by the contemporary art while his works keep the soul of the graffiti universe, opened to various plastic techniques. In permanent research of original mixture and inspiration, Reso keeps creating, for the happiness of us all.

    • MISS VAN

      Miss van started wall-painting at the age of 20, in 1993, initiating the feminine movement in Street Art. She is from Toulouse, France but she spent most of her artistic life in Barcelona, Spain. She has travelled around the globe, painting her instantly recognizable women on the streets, as well as on canvas. She has exhibited extensively for decades worldwide in Europe, USA and Asia.

      Miss Van’s recent artistic pursuits have taken her to Los Angeles, Miami, Spain and Brazil, which hallmarks a recent return to street art, after several years spent solely painting in the studio, charging her new works with increased depth, emotion and elevated romantic darkness and delicacy. Her iconic sultry female characters reappear in sensual yet dark animal masks and evolving environments.

      In a gauzy romantic compositions, they carry a surreal quality of burlesque, resonating with a beautiful synergy of rawness, softness and emotion.

    • Mondé

      Loïc Mondé is a product of the graffiti culture and has been painting in the streets of his hometown Toulouse for the past 15 years. He’s working in public spaces in order to promote his name and showcases them to the masses.
      His illegal paintings are the foundation to his art and they gave him his taste for travel.

      Working on canvases is a logical follow-up to his art, this allows him to dig deeper into his designs. He focuses on finding the perfect balance between background and foreground (playing with filled and empty spaces) and discovering new color combinations.

      His art is a mix between calligraphy, graffiti and abstract compositions.

      His canvases have a raw aspect because they are all born from spontaneity, there are no preliminary sketches nor research. Much is left to happenstance while putting on front row the energy of the lines.
      His main sources of inspiration are action painting, Jackson Pollock’s drippings and Hassan Massoudy’s calligraphies.

      You’ll find mixed together on his canvas the randomness of graffiti drips and splashes with the energy and the precision that comes from arab and latin calligraphy.
      Loïc Mondé has been part of many exhibitions and auctions such as the Artcurial Show in 2011 or the more recent Mr. Freeze show in 2013, both in Toulouse