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 one in Martigues.
This blue fresco, poetic, is located on the seafront, in the heart of the historic center of Martigues, which has the label «City of Art and History». It was in 2018, in the neighborhood of the Island, that the artist Guillaume Bottazzi made this fresco of 10 meters high which marks the entrance of the city by boat.
Painted in oil with shades of blue, the work is received with enthusiasm in the region and the imagination of the residents is solicited.
This poetic creation induces us to travel in an unreal universe. It nourishes the passerby by 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.
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