GAËL DAVRINCHE pour les 10 ans !

Clarance is developing an original and innovative cultural policy in Lille.

The building, conceived as a new place of culture in the city, offers clients and visitors an artistic journey that showcases contemporary French and international art in its public spaces.

In this approach and in partnership with the Galerie Cédric Bacqueville, come and meet :

THE ATLAS
From February 18 to April 30, 2019

The French artist Jules Dedet Granel, known as L'Atlas, born in 1978, finds through his research around writing the starting point of his plastic and pictorial work. He studied calligraphy in several countries and cultures and thus creates his own original typographies. He is particularly attracted by the idea of creating a universal pictorial language, which is a balance between form and letter, between act and intention. A play of infinite variations, flush with and away from optical art and the different movements of abstract and geometric art. In the 1990s, he acts radically in the public space, making himself known in the field of graffiti; since the 2000s he has been developing a workshop work and exhibiting his works in contemporary urban art galleries.

A major and internationally recognized figure in street art, he is renowned for his painted facades as well as for his monumental performances on the ground of cities on historic sites, in the image of this immense compass rose commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2008, or again on the Place du Capitole in 2012, in partnership with the city of Toulouse. These performances are the subject of videograms produced frame by frame by the artist.

He has also collaborated with major brands such as Perrier, whose mythical bottles he has adorned with his "Poptic'art" touch, a movement mixing optical art and pop art, which he claims to be "Poptic'art".being the inventor of the name; But also with Agnès b, by intervening on the clothes of the creator who is one of the most faithful collectors of the artist.

The Atlas presents the particularity of systematically researching and renewing his approach and his expression of the letter and the line, of the codified rhythm of writing, seeking the frontier of the unreadable, and methodically leading his work towards abstraction and minimalism ; he considers every form as a letter and every letter as a form, which leads him to work recently with town planners to give a third dimension to his art and reinvest public space in another way, thus giving meaning to the architectural dimension of his work.

He is now an artist whose rigorous work explains his success with collectors, the public and institutions.