For its second edition, the Nice Street Art Project organized an international and transdisciplinary symposium dedicated to the relationship between street art and poetry. This year, the theme is centered on the poetry of “Poets on the Walls.”
Several meetings, conferences, tours, and an opening event are taking place. Ernest PIGNON-ERNEST and Niels SHOE Meulman are the standout artists of this event.
“Art is not something you look at, it’s something you engage with,” explains Robert Roux, Municipal Councilor of the City of Nice, Delegate for Arts in Public Spaces.
For the past three years, Street Art has been increasingly spreading in the city of Nice. An art once criticized and associated with “taggers” has now become the new global movement of contemporary art.
Word without image, with image, revisited, on a wall, a floor, on anything and everything… these are various creative ways to invoke Street Art. Yet, inexplicable as it may be, it evokes an emotion that is both poetic and sentimental.
“A need to communicate,” “to assert the sadness of the places,” details Edwige Comoy Fusaro, HDR lecturer at the BMVR Louis Nucéra auditorium colloquium.
“Conveying a message.” This is why street artists create their works in urban public spaces, to be seen by everyone.
Construction site fences of the tramway, Place Garibaldi, Alsace-Lorraine garden, Falicon park squat, Nice Nord Forum, Faculty of Letters. Gradually, the public authority is calling for this poetic art that beautifies the urban areas of the city with ephemeral works.
A true open-air gallery. An opportunity to dream, reflect, and feel an emotion. That’s what street artists are seeking.
