Street Art Trail from Saint-Androny to Val-de-Livenne

To start this route, we suggest you start from the town of Saint Androny. You can park in the town hall car park.

A few steps from the starting point, you can admire Kashink's work on the school wall. 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, draws inspiration from these traditions to create enigmatic and colorful portraits, full of life.

To continue, take the road towards Cartelègue where we find the work of Levalet. You can park in the parking lot of the village hall, opposite.Charles LEVAL is an artist specializing in collage.Charles Leval, known as Levalet, was born in 1988 in Epinal. He grew up in Guadeloupe, a region where he came into contact with urban culture, then the visual arts. He continued his studies of visual arts in Strasbourg; his work, then more focused on video, is nourished by an assiduous theatrical practice. He obtained the aggregation in 2012, the year when his work began to take place in the streets of Paris and elsewhere. In 2013, he began exhibiting in galleries and participating in international events. Levalet's work is above all a work of drawing and installation. He stages his characters drawn in Indian ink in public space, in a game of visual and semantic dialogue with the present environment. The characters interact with the architecture and unfold in situations often bordering on the absurd.

Continue your path towards Etauliers where you will find Dawal's work. You can park in the main street. After beginnings in the wastelands of Lille, Dawal developed a technique in a style teeming with details and rich in symbols, sometimes tinged with humor and irony. His graphic, colorful and lively universe, was constructed during paintings in public spaces during night sessions in Athens. Very quickly, his line is oriented on a surrealist basis, which draws its influences from the street and childhood memories. Today based in Paris, he continues his research on canvas with acrylic and on wall with spray, always aspiring to escape the mind into narrative compositions.

To continue the circuit, head towards Saint-Aubin de Blaye. Head towards the doctor's office, you can park in the city stadium car park. For Jean Rooble, it's all a question of meeting people. The graffiti and visual artist tells the story of humans through hyper-realistic, spray-painted portraits. It's difficult to miss the monumental frescoes of Bordeaux without stopping for a moment to admire their details. The artist works from his own photos and reproduces, down to the smallest pores of their skin, the models that he paints. “Every time it’s a real encounter, it’s often people who are close to me, it’s intimate and it’s engaging,” says the graffiti artist from his workshop in Bordeaux Lac. His computer is open on Photoshop, which he uses to prepare his projects. To his left, the wall is covered in spray paint. 25 years have passed since he started spray painting, to which he has devoted himself full time for fifteen years.

For the last stage, we will meet you in Val de Livenne, and more precisely at the Marcillac distillery to discover the works of Charles Foussard.Charles FOUSSARD is an iconoclastic artist, figurative and abstract street artistWith his feet in the sand since his earliest childhood spent between the island of Reunion and Bordeaux, Charles Foussard draws on the most beautiful things Nature has to offer: the unexpected, the spectacular, the energy and luxuriance of shapes and colors. The desire to transcribe this vision of the world, embellished by numerous trips, appeared in the 2000s when the blockhouses of the Landes beaches caught his keen eye as a graffiti artist. The immediate click took him into a completely different style, far from the graffiti codes that marked his adolescence. Shimmering, intriguingly fluid, mineral and organic, his surrealist compositions immediately stand out and surprise social networks which propel him to the forefront. This self-taught artist is the 2016 winner of the Grand Prix Bernard Magrez. If in his compositions the vegetation is always as opulent and the reefs undulating, Charles Foussard nevertheless excludes the human presence, identified by characters with a good-natured appearance named by his own words "Pépouzes". They find their place as being the action of man, even his very inaction and become allegories of the human condition.