Street Art trail in Saint-Androny, Braud-et-Saint-Louis and Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde

To begin this journey, we suggest you start from the town of Saint Androny, where you can admire Kashink's work on the wall of the municipal school. Kashink draws its inspiration from the tradition of masks, which takes us back to a form of human transcendence. This tradition exists in all continents of the world, in Europe for carnivals, in Asia for opera, theater or folk festivals. In Africa, masks are used to accompany rituals or ceremonies, the same is true in many ancestral cultural traditions. The mask is a metaphor, it serves both to hide the face of the person wearing it, but also to reveal it, allowing us to question social codes, to create a link to the invisible. Makeup is also a way of creating this bond. For this project, Kaskink draws inspiration from these traditions to create enigmatic and colorful portraits, full of life. Take the road towards Braud-et-Saint-Louis.

Arriving at the roundabout, it is on one of the walls of the old medical office that we find Rouge's work. In 2014, Rouge chose a name that she wanted to be close to her street work: commune, appropriable, multiple. In Rouge's practice there is the idea that an image is precious, and that making one of quality, that is to say thick in narration, in pictorial generosity and in poetry, is is a rare celebration to which she likes to devote time, and whose conception is forged through contact and exploration of its surroundings. Convinced by an accessible art caught in the fabric of the world, she has worked since her beginnings through collage or frescoes in the city, alongside rigorous studio practice. The wall, the neighborhood, like the canvas and the paper offer him the opportunity for figurations that are never symbolic but always narrative. His compositions offer a tension towards the manifesto, the fable or the poem, with attention to framing inherited from video, and always animated by the pleasure of painting in itself. To continue the circuit, head towards the power station.

Take the direction of the power station at the roundabout then after 3km, turn right and follow the direction of Terres d'Oiseaux. At the port, head towards the parking lot at the foot of the panoramic tower. You will find Lloeil's work on one of the surrounding buildings. A fan of graphic design and solid colors, gradient colors or visual frames made of lines or points, rhythm is the conductor and the very essence of Loeil's compositions and work. After a period of plastic research on canvas working in series on identical formats with stages of saturation by stratum stopped at different times in the production process, he purifies his productions and now aims to move towards the minimal and the essential by using its gimmicks* of achievements and by highlighting games of depth and radiance.

Take the road again towards Saint-Ciers sur Gironde. Arriving at the stop sign, turn right towards the city center. You will find Alber's work at the bend of an alley in front of the town hall. For several years, walls in France and elsewhere have been covered with a face, imagined and created by Alber. little of the codes of graffiti in search of a more personal expression. From graffiti, it retains the fluidity of the gesture which traces lines and runs on the surface, but the lines and shapes come together in a figurative representation. The application of spray paint gives relief and light to these assemblages revealing a face of disproportionate proportions, a fixed blue gaze under heavy eyelids. This character becomes the signature of Alber who, from graffiti artist to street artist, preserving his freedom to paint where he wants, when he wants.

Take the road again towards Braud and Saint Louis. Arriving in the town, on your left, find the work of Goddog. Damien Mauro known as GoddoG has always been keen to nourish his curiosity and open-mindedness. Self-taught, his passions for architecture, nature, literature as well as his passion for sharing fuel and enrich his art made of movements, and his daily life anchored in encounters. For more than 15 years - Damien aka GoddoG - has devoted himself to painting through abstraction. Rigorous, this discipline allows him to refine his artistic trajectory made of curves, lines, softness and rupture in order to bring the public to greater attention and contemplation. His work develops around the link and the fracture, creating direct contact with the public. GoddoG plays with the shackles. The movement of his paintings embodies a spontaneity accessible to all. His mixed technique and the mastery of his gesture allow him to create works with accomplished plays of textures, to gain effects and give substance to certain figurative elements. Its universe is dreamlike and leads us both to calming the mind and to interaction. Then, head towards the village hall.

Arriving in the center of Braud, you will find the last work of the circuit at the Braud village hall, that of the artist PEC.PEC has always drawn on school benches and it is quite natural that he started graffiti in 1989 in his hometown of Lyon. He developed his art through his nights out and his experiences. Constantly questioning himself to find his style in line with the urban environment. His all-consuming passion led him to paint and hold exhibitions in Paris, Bangkok, London, Mexico, Barcelona, ​​Ibiza, Colombia, etc. PEC is above all an artist who uses the city as a gallery where his colorful works brighten up the daily lives of the inhabitants. Using a multitude of techniques and supports, PEC never ceases to surprise you at the corner of a street, a highway...