PAIN(T)

Painting murals is a very popular activity among professionals and amateurs. This naturally requires a lot of paint/spraypaint, and although paint has undergone many processes to be less harmful to people and the environment, it is still a material that must be handled with care. Murals Inc. will be inviting into its exhibition space a selection of muralists and street artists who handle materials in a conscious manner or have found innovative, sustainable ways to produce their paintings.

Germain Prévost / germain_ipin, (1981) Reims, is a heterodox artist. In the early 2000s, IPIN divided his training between painting on industrial wasteland and completing a Masters in Environment and Society in Marseille. A number of side tracks, from street art to live performances, led him to focus more on art with a contextual character. Passionate about site-specific work, the relationship between scale, landscape and photography, his work casts an engaged view of the world. Although he now uses a non-figurative vocabulary, his “graphic dystopias” and his recent works talk about humans and their place in society.

Germaine Prévost's Seconde Pot - Augmented Muralism Project emphasizes paint left over after a job of any kind. He asks residents to collect paint, this paint will be used to create a new mural, using the collected paint as a color palette. This creates a 'self-generating aesthetic' where architecture and colors merge. The project strives to create a universal graphic metaphor by completely covering buildings with paint, adding human nuance to functional architecture. Each paint pot represents an individual story and helps shape a colorful image of the area.