For this year 2021, the famous artist Guillaume Bottazzi invites us to a gargantuan artistic journey with 25 works of art to discover in France as part of the European Heritage Days. The works presented criss-cross the country from north to south of France, from Lille, via Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Mandelieu... Seven of them are to be discovered in the Southern region, including five in the Bouches-du-Rhône and four in Marseille.
Guillaume Bottazzi has signed nearly 100 environmental and poetic works in public spaces and this delicate and poetic fresco is located boulevard Herriot in Marseille-Prado. The work is made using glazes. Glazes are a succession of transparent layers that allow light to penetrate so as to bring softness and depth. This work postulates the sensory experience of the spectator. Thirty-three years ago, at the age of seventeen, the young painter went to Italy to learn painting and it was in Rome, at the Vatican, in the Pope’s apartments, that he was deeply touched by the visit of the Fra Angelico chapel.
This poetic creation to be seen in Marseille leads us to travel in an unreal universe. It nourishes the passerby by making him dream. It creates a poetic, enchanting space that evolves according to our imagination. The imaginary is anterior to our perceptions and ideas, it will reveal them, allow us to build ourselves, strengthen ourselves, renew ourselves and reinvent ourselves.
Guillaume Bottazzi’s official website: https://www.guillaume.bottazzi.org