Escif

<div>Far from the idea of decorating the city, Escif sees his murals as pretexts for exchange. The context is for him one of the essential ingredients, the imagery that emerges above all at the service of the dialogue that he wishes to engage with the passers-by.&nbsp;<br>Escif refers here to Magritte: our mind lets us see an empty glass and a filled glass, where there is only a wall covered with a few layers of paint.<br>Project created within the scope of the “1st Bien Urbain Festival edition”, September 2011</div>

Le pouvoir de l'esprit

Collectif BIM

Atelier Bivouac

<div>In partnership with the Sciences Art Culture department of the University of Franche-Comté and as part of the project of Besançon Botanical Garden moving from the city center to the Campus. This week’s challenge was to experiment how putting bodies into play in a place makes it possible to design and share a landscape project with local actors. Following several times of discussion and consultation, three wooden constructions were carried out in order to improve the reception of the public and the life of the gardeners on the future site of the Botanical Garden, in the heart of the campus.&nbsp;</div>

Transitional Botanical Garden 

eltono

<div>French artist, Eltono has been working in the public space for over fifteen years, notably through mural painting. He now plays with lines to repeat this adaptable form and make it a graphic motif constant enough to be identified but at the same time changeable enough to fit a given context. It is the way he articulates the lines and the colors he uses that allows him to adapt to the surfaces he paints on. The inhabitants of the Grette and Butte districts were able to create a mural with the artist Eltono. These painting workshops were a good opportunity for the participants and the parents accompanying their children to meet Eltono and to question him on his artistic practice.</div>

A Géométrie Variable 

BLA+

<div>Former member of the Ripoulin Brothers collective with the artist OX, Bla+ has also continued to paint, leaving the street but not the colorful aesthetics of the 80s. He works around acidulous characters more or less understandable, falsely disturbing, to be found like pop-up paintings in different places of Besançon. Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Untitled 

Luce

<div>Adopting a combinatorial typography, far from the usual vocabulary of tag, Luce creates strange situations (sculptures, montages, paintings...). Realized in situ in wood or other recycled material, his intriguing installations seem official but without function, playful but without rules of the game. The daring young artist has scattered numerous wood’s installations in the interstices of Besançon city.<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

bastardilla

<div>Bastardilla is a prominent artist from Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. Most of her work deals with themes related to the difficult situations of Latin American women and the state of violence in which some parts of her native country find themselves.</div>

Bastardilla

Ericailcane

<div>In the manner of a Jean de la Fontaine muralist, the Italian artist Ericailcane creates animals with human postures, illustrating social facts or local issues with a touch of satirical humor. On the wall you can see two sheeps: the white one is behind a white fence, his legs are stuck into barbed wire, small white tanks on his feet. The black one is hiding behind him cutting nippers on which it is written: “the right to live can’t be begged, it must be taken”, a quote from the french anarchist Alexandre Marius Jacob.<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Vieni a Giocare con noi 

Cabanon Vertical

<div>A multidisciplinary collective that combines applied and visual arts, "Le Cabanon Vertical" questions the place of the individual in urban space, its uses and its freedom to act. Self-construction is a starting point for a poetic and active approach to space.&nbsp;<br>For this 2nd year of BAM!, the graphic designers’ workshop Terrains Vagues has handed over to the architects’ collective Cabanon Vertical.</div>

Bien comme à la maison 

Nicolas Filloque & Claire Malvoti

<div>The association “Juste Ici” warmed up our new Risograph at the Atelier Superseñor ! The artists Claire Malvolti and Nicolas Filloque designed a series of posters with random combinations, carrying messages that are both poetic and political. Already displayed on the panels of our wall newspapers we’ll soon display Besançon's free panels !</div>

Slogan generator

Margaux Grappe

<div>Animals, flowers, plants… The artist Margaux Grappe from Besançon proposes a bucolic mural to accompany the recent vegetalization of the space in front of the premises of the association “Miroirs de femmes”. Margaux took the opportunity to pay homage to the rabbit drawing, inspired by an engraving by Albrecht Dürer, previously visible on the entrance of the nearby school (because yes, we are here in the Rue Dürer!).&nbsp;</div>

No title 

<div>For this third edition of BAM!, a cycle of participatory artistic residencies that question the uses of the Bouloie in Besançon, the Bivouac workshop and the Bim crew take the lead, in partnership with a student association : the GNUF. Together they created a walking path that brings walkers to discover a new aspect of the campus.</div>

Discovery Trail of La Bouloie 

Cyprien Desrez

<div>In Besançon and with the teenagers students of the college Diderot, the choice of Cyprien Desrez went to the manufacture of sandstone bricks. The college students each represented a region or a country on each brick, with the final aim of gathering them all in an English or Flemish layout on the entrance wall of their college. Supported and helped by the CFA Vauban team, Cyprien and the SEGPA students were finally able to put their bricks on the entrance wall of the college.&nbsp;</div>

Format To Share 

ESPO - Stephen Powers

<div>A major artist of graffiti and the revival of lettering, Steve Powers has chosen to illustrate the English expressions used in France and the borrowings that Anglo-Saxons make from the language of Molière. Constantly open to encounters and driven by the enthusiasm of the neighborhood, he also represented in lettering and drawings some anecdotes drawn from the discussions he was able to have on site, until he covered the entire wall surface available.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2017</div>

Billet doux 

Helmut Smits

<div>Originally from the Netherlands, where brick is a very popular material for building houses, the artist was charmed by the irregularity of the Chailluz stone facades in Besançon (a local stone, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site). He chose to color the entire facade of a house in Place Marulaz with chalk, creating an amazing, playful and dreamlike patchwork of colors, letting the house express itself and thus momentarily breaking the uniform aesthetic while preserving the local heritage.<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2018</div>

Chalk House

Renaud Vigourt

Julie Ménin

<div>This 5m mural mixing illustrations and lettering was imagined as a tribute to the writer Stendhal. Rather than creating a classic portrait, Julie Mélin and Renaud Vigourt chose to focus on Stendhal’s literary work. They began by learning about the relationship between Stendhal and Besançon, which is essentially found in his novel “Le Rouge et le Noir”. Both of them had fun with the names of the protagonists. The street came alive with passers-by, including Stendhal himself, his pocket-watch in hand, encouraging new winks and stories in this little world mixing generations, trades, wacky cyclists and cats on hot roofs.&nbsp;</div>

Stendhal 

Tank Atelier

<div>The team of the “Centre Dramatique National” (CDN) Franche-Comté (FR) has long wished to call upon the association “Juste Ici”, to imagine a mural on one of the outside walls of the theater. It is done! We invited together Thibault Quittelier and Romaric Jeannin, printing artists, founders of TANK Atelier. From their artisanal printing workshop comes out an artwork playing on the “micro” and the “macro”. The “macro”, a mise en abîme of wefts, more than a hundred printed sheets of three different patterns, forming a large psychedelic and very vibrant kaleidoscope. A kind of giant faceted ball for the CDN’s Guinguette, as the artists said !</div>

<div>For this 5th edition of the mural newspaper “On s’la raconte” made with the association “Miroirs de Femmes-Reflets du Monde”, we invited the artist Cyprien Desrez to imagine an illustrated universe around the “Village du Monde” event which took place in Planoise. Cyprien is a young artist who likes to travel and discover new territories and collect information (images, words, languages, gestures) related to cultural identities to translate them.</div>

Le croissant n'est pas d'origine française !

Mohamed El Ghacham

<div>The painter Mohamed L'Ghacham draws from intimate family histories the material for his murals. The photographs used as models come from families in the vicinity, delivering to Mohamed a private part that will echo in the public sphere, like with this mural painting, which represents a child on a bike.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “9th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Hyuro

<div>Hyuro, flagship artist of the new muralism, was invited to participate in the Bien Urbain Festival to imagine “Juste Ici association” the festival lineup. Hyuro has created a new artwork. Through this mural, he wanted to express the importance, even more for women, of not being afraid to stand up and express themselves, straight on their feet, in the public space.<br>Project created within the scope of the “9th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

About occupying spaces 

Thomas Lateur

<div>This participative work was created by the artist Thomas Lateur and the little hands of many festival-goers during the Bien Urbain Festival.&nbsp;<br>Graphist, artist, typographist, skateboarder, this Besançon born and raised has a ruler, a compass in his hands and palm tree in his mind. His abstract murals are influenced by architecture and modular games. He uses them to try new things, away from rigid geometric grids.<br>Project created within the scope of the “9th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Jan Vormann

<div>In addition with Dispatchwork which will be remembered by Besançon people of all ages, Jan Vormann also realised for the Bien Urbain edition, iridescent mosaics incrustations in Besançon bitumen. An ironical blink of an eye to sadly gorgeous multicolor oil stains left by cars on the ground and visible by rain time.<br>Project created within the scope of the “9th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Monumental Street Art 

Fernando Abellanas alias Lebrel

<div>A regular at the Bien Urbain Festival, the artist Fernando Abellanas returned to Besançon to propose several small “refuges”, in the corners of the city bridges… Each one was designed to suit the needs, adapting to the rough edges and taking inspiration from the architectural specificities of the bisontins bridges. Here a small staircase leading to the interior of the arch of the République bridge, side Parc Micaud.<br>Project created within the scope of the “9th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Refuge Urbain de Marie 

Léo Gallo

Marine Deru

<div>Freelance designer and builder, Marine works in the field of public spaces (squares, gardens, courtyards, paths...etc) with a collaborative approach. A former civic service member of the association Juste Ici, she joined forces with one of her former colleagues, Léo Gallo, to create this playful installation. It was imagined following times of meeting with the neighbors - small and large - and will enhance the playing with the aesthetics of the labyrinth.</div>

Labyrinth

Hobo Collective

<div>With the creation of structures which accompany – and at the same time go beyond – the existing uses of the place located at the Époisses tram stop in Planoise neighborhood, the collective of HOBO architects has proposed installations which invite you to meetings and imagination. This temporary development follows the desire of the “Ateliers Juste Ici” to make this nameless space a public place animated by regular meetings.</div>

La plage publique 

Léonie Dumas

<div>On the occasion of the “Ateliers pieds d’immeubles”, the Juste Ici association proposed furniture construction workshops to the children and inhabitants of Planoise neighborhood in Besançon. Following workshops to consult the inhabitants, the volunteers Léonie and Marine, had the idea of these mobile wooden structures, allowing inhabitants to sit alone or in groups, to lie down, to play… The 3 structures can be grouped together or displayed on a public square or in a garden.</div>

Puzzle à vivre 

Jazoo Yang

<div>Korean artist, Jazoo Yang is especially interested in the evolution of cities and the nostalgic poetry that emerges from popular neighborhoods demolished at high speed. She proposes to the city of Besançon a filling pothole with resin and materials peeled from the walls of different buildings of the city, to express her inspiration.<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Stolen Time 

Deana Kolenčiková

<div>Surprised and amused by the posters of “fresh paintings” present throughout the city, often glued after the interventions of “anti-graffiti” services, the Czech artist wanted to make a mural ! Constantly written in the same size and with the same typography, Deana made a true copy, painting and giant format.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Peinture Fraîche

Epos 257

Mathieu Tremblin

<div>Mathieu Tremblin, member of the “Frères Ripoulins” and Epos 257, respectively invited at the “Bien Urbain Festival” in 2014 and 2015, realised a series of spontaneous actions. Investing the outdoor space of abandoned shops by installations, performances or changing urban codes, their interventions question us about our relationship with consumption society, publicity or nature.<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Aldi Essalam 

Vladimir Turner

<div>Vladimir Turner's work combines both art in public space and activism. Here he climbed the statue in memory of P.J. Proudhon, "father of anarchy" born in Besançon to adorn it with a pendant composed of a large gold chain and a paving stone. 50 years after May 68, Vladimir thus proposes a critique of the commodification of revolt and political art.<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2018</div>

Bijouterie 

Julien Fargetton

<div>Through his drawings, sculptures and performances, Julien Fargetton searches for the origin of things that surround him. For several weeks, the artist settled in Planoise district. He took the time to interact with local residents to make drawings based on these discussions.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “8th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Planoise 

Stéréo Felix

<div>The artist Stéréo Félix created a mural with the employees of the Brasserie de l’Espace, for its 10th anniversary. After an introductory workshop on his approach to watercolour technique, the employees of the brewery were able to test themselves with the artist by creating a mural right next to their workplace. A beautiful meeting that brought as much to the participants as to Stéréo Félix.</div>

Ekta

<div>A tireless jack-of-all-trades, Ekta wants to challenge office hours and routine while in Besançon. His impulsive painting, always in search and in danger, but also his vision of the street or of a district, lead him to collaborate with craftsmen and amateurs, to realize installations, to paint small walls, to give an account of a time in Besançon through an intense production.<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>A tireless jack-of-all-trades and impulsive painter, Ekta is often brought to collaborate with craftsmen and amateurs, to realize installations, in Besançon, through an intense production. This abstract composition was made by the artist in the manner of a patchwork.<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

The Wa

<div>Heir to the impertinent aspect of graffiti, The Wa questions and destabilizes by small touches the codes imposed by the public or private power, as answers to nonsense that has become a little too common.<br>He created this work in tribute to Socrate (It is a pun : “Con” means “Idiot” and “Vaincu” means “Defeated”). “Convaincu” means “convinced”, it is a reference to the famous Socrate sentence “All I know is (that) I know nothing”.<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Con-vaincu 

<div>Since the 1980s, OX has been drawing inspiration and successfully diverting codes and media from advertising imagery with contextual work that sharpens our eyes and never ceases to surprise. His work in abstract forms embraces the surrounding environment so much that it sometimes evokes narrations, comic situations or highlights small or large urban aberrations.<br>Project created within the scope of the “7th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Modo n°16

Tima Radya

<div>Adept of simple and poetic paintings or excessive installations, Timofey Radya does not hesitate to redouble his audacity and nerve in an authoritarian political context and conveys strong messages by their subtlety, their contextualization and their commitment. Inspired by the famous anti-war slogan "Make love not war", he created this mural for the city of Besançon. Project created within the scope of the “6th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Make love not war

Cyop & Kaf

<div>This Neapolitan tandem is more interested in the porosity between art and everyday life than in the imposing aspect of their work. This mural painting realized for the Bien Urbain Festival represents people who seem to fight each other, as indicated by its name "Tutti contro tutti" which means "All against all". Project created within the scope of the “6th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Tutti contro tutti 

<div>This Neapolitan tandem is more interested in the porosity between art and everyday life than in the imposing aspect of their work.&nbsp;<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “6th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Tensione 

Fermin Jimenez Landa

<div>A contemporary artist on the fringe of established categories, Fermin Jimenez Landa is not a conventional person. In 2016, he proposed a denunciatory work at the Bien Urbain Festival following the Eurovision contest. This one exposed some time earlier the list of banned flags, due to a controversial aspect of the appearance of a Basque flag next to an ISIS flag. With this work, Fermin Jimenez Landa defends the colors of his native land.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “6th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Eurovision 

<div>After a first passage in 2013 for the action Recover the streets, and featuring the street gardeners, we offered you to re-discover this place full of potential. A good opportunity to think and to create furniture with us, garden boxes and everything coming straight from your imagination.&nbsp;</div>

Ruelle Billard - Quartier Battant 

Lolo y Sosaku

<div>This cosmopolitan and versatile duo is constantly looking for new visual and sound experiments, notably this Experimental mural painting, visible at La Friche Artistique in Besançon.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “6th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>Far from the idea of decorating the city, Escif sees his murals as pretexts for exchange. The context is for him one of the essential ingredients, the imagery that emerges above all at the service of the dialogue that he wishes to engage with the passers-by. The artist did a residency at the CFA Hilaire de Chardonnet in Besançon with the students. The high school students painted the result of their exchanges with Escif in situ, on the walls of their school.</div>

Bienvenue 

<div>French artist, Eltono has been working in the public space for over fifteen years, notably through mural painting. He now plays with lines to repeat this adaptable form and make it a graphic motif constant enough to be identified but at the same time changeable enough to fit a given context. It is the way he articulates the lines and the colors he uses that allows him to adapt to the surfaces he paints on.<br>During two weeks, the schoolchildren of La Grette and La Butte neighborhood, and a few lucky people had the opportunity to make a mural painting. A geometrical and random composition gradually took shape on the wall, which revealed new patterns everyday through the play of colours and assemblages.&nbsp;</div>

Modo N°2

<div>Far from the idea of decorating the city, Escif sees his murals as pretexts for exchange. The context is for him one of the essential ingredients, the imagery that emerges above all at the service of the dialogue that he wishes to engage with the passers-by. This time, he decided to create a plexiglas plate with sticker glued to the wall.&nbsp;</div>

Untitled

<div>Far from the idea of decorating the city, Escif sees his murals as pretexts for exchange. The context is for him one of the essential ingredients, the imagery that emerges above all at the service of the dialogue that he wishes to engage with the passers-by. During a workshop with the students of the Pasteur High School, Escif wondered if new walls should be built to protect the Unesco listed walls. He then reproduces this listed railing seen on the balcony of the house.&nbsp;</div>

3TTman

<div>The artist 3ttman has placed custom-made ceramics in the asperities of the pavement of the Battant district. His mission is to repair the city by giving it a luxurious and colorful second skin.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015.</div>

Mirages

HuskMitNavn

<div>Street caricaturist, HuskMitNavn observes this road, often forced to traffic jams. He represents the reactions of the motorists, sometimes asleep or irritated.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>The artist 3ttman has placed custom-made ceramics in the asperities of the pavement of the Battant district. His mission is to repair the city by giving it a luxurious and colorful second skin. Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015.</div>

Specter

<div>Through the works that Gabriel Specter created in Besançon, it is possible to realize the multiplicity of his work. Between hyper realistic wall paintings, installations and collages, the artist has developed an extremely rich plastic vocabulary in close connection with the city. Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>The artist 3ttman has placed custom-made ceramics in the asperities of the pavement of the Battant district. His mission is to repair the city by giving it a luxurious and colorful second skin.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015</div>

<div>Gabriel Specter gives full meaning to the expression 'in situ' through his work: each intervention takes shape according to the place where it is visible to passers-by. Between hyper realistic murals, installations and collages, the artist has deployed an extremely rich plastic vocabulary with a close link to the city of Besançon, precisely with this mural painting.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>Street caricaturist, HuskMitNavn offers entertainment for the inmates of the Besançon prison.<br>He said that “This wall can be seen from Besançon prison. I give the bad boys something to see.”&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015</div>

<div>Street caricaturist, HuskMitNavn observed this passage, to realize that passersby, whatever their age or activity, took advantage of this shortcut to ride like crazy on their motorcycles, without much respect for other passers-by...&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015</div>

French traffic (almost)

<div>Street caricaturist, HuskMitNavn observed this passage, to realize that passersby, whatever their age or activity, took advantage of this shortcut to dive into their phones, at the risk of an accident!&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015</div>

<div>Through the works that Gabriel Specter created in Besançon, it is possible to realize the multiplicity of his work. Between hyper realistic wall paintings, installations and collages, the artist has developed an extremely rich plastic vocabulary in close connection with the city.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Despegable 

Remed

<div>Always obsessed by the work of the letter and the forms, Remed's paintings also tend towards a language always more universal and synthetic; that of the geometry, the body and the colors. He finds in otherness the raw material to create and purify to the maximum his compositions which are felt more than understood.<br>Project created within the scope of the "5th Bien Urbain edition".</div>

Impermanence permanente 

<div>While he was working on the Mirages installation, 3ttman had some free time to make cement candy! On the abandoned military barracks on Rue Voirin, the artist hijacked Marshal Pétain’s slogan that said Work, Family, Homeland and transformed it into Work, Family, Party. Pétain was the marshal in charge of France under Nazi occupation, everything about him has strong anti-democratic connotations. 3ttman’s intervention aimed precisely at turning a dramatic act into a careless joke and at affirming the need for lightness in a world where things are sometimes taken too seriously. Some neighbors were really annoyed by this sentence, assuming that humour is in danger in our modern societies !&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Travail Famille Party 

Small Studio

Nelio

<div>We were approached by the City of Besançon to produce a mural and an introductory screen printing workshop on the occasion of the opening of the “The Museum in Planoise”. Followers of abstract and figurative geometric shapes, Nelio and Small Studio artists took up the challenge to make a mural on two floors, featuring different colored faces and profiles.&nbsp;</div>

Elian Chali

<div>Active activist of the urban art of Cordoba in Argentina, Elian likes to play with the textures and ornaments of the walls on which he paints large colored and apparently permeable flat areas, kinds of tasks or puddles of striking colors. Paradoxically, the paint that erases the reliefs of the painted buildings is so intriguing that it invites one to look with precision at all the details of the architecture thus frozen.&nbsp;<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Contrast

Zosen

Mina Hamada

<div>Zosen is one of the representatives of the fabulous scene of painters of Barcelona. Bright colors and simple forms are the basis of his dense and explosive compositions. This is what he proposes for his work in Besançon, a colorful and dynamic mural painting.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Le Privé 

Pastel Francisco Diaz

<div>Trained as an architect, Pastel has a background in Buenos Aires graffiti and a desire to experiment with different techniques depending on the location of his interventions. He focuses on the relationship between art and urbanism through abstract technical drawings or organic structures, complex networks of deceptively figurative forms.<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Franco Fasoli Jaz

<div>After years of intensive graffiti practice in Buenos Aires, Franco Fasoli looked at other ways of painting in the street, whether by the technique, often experimental, or by the pictorial style. He became known under the name of Jaz for his atypical way of representing human encounters, situations or feelings through scenes where animals and geometric forms intersect. Phenomena of masses or duels with bare hands are subjects that are often found in his paintings, where the bodies merge in a dead-end street.&nbsp;<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Defensa cultural 

Graphic surgery

<div>By comparing their photographic work around the collapse of old factories, Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra detected the omnipresence of geometric forms. Together they began to clean up these images and generate a kind of repertoire of geometric and abstract forms, rooted in our post-industrial era. Their black and white paintings, extremely precise and mechanical, show the buildings and the city as living organisms.&nbsp;<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Razzle

Ever

<div>Ever began his artistic practice with graffiti, marking the streets of Buenos Aires in the 90s. Since then, his work has naturally moved towards the representation of ordinary people, based on photos found on the Internet or individuals he has met on the street. The pictorial style of his portraits may seem more typical of gallery paintings, recalling the touch of artists such as Van Gogh, Klimt or Bacon.&nbsp;<br>Mural painting created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Anarchist Utopia Description

Tellas

<div>Originally from Sardinia, Tellas is not the stereotypical urban megalopolis painter. The recurring motifs in his work are borrowed from the natural repertoire: leaves and patterns evoking stone become a focal point in his work. He is achieving an abstract experimentation in tribute to Georges Seurat, a figure entirely apart in Pointillism.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

MOMO

<div>Back in Besançon after a painting in the city and experiments with Eltono in 2012, Momo has since gained the recognition he deserves and is now one of the most popular muralists. His unique combination of abstract forms with a vector-like appearance, his meticulous way of painting and matching forms, or even colors and surfaces. After a lively meeting with the CM1 and CM2 classes of Fanart Elementary School, Momo was able to finalize his paintings on the walls of their school, under their cheerful cheers!&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

<div>Originally from Sardinia, Tellas is not the stereotypical urban megalopolis painter. The recurring motifs in his work are borrowed from the natural repertoire: leaves and patterns evoking stone become a focal point in his work. In a vegetable tangle underlining colors of the visible hills from the nearby streets, it seems that meteorites are falling down from the sky.<br>Project created within the scope of the “4th Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Meteorite shower

El peso de la historia 

Brad Downey

<div>Brad Downey's work is inseparable from public space. For the past fifteen years, this American artist, who lives in Berlin, has been making interventions that hijack urban objects and furniture in a playful, disillusioned or grating way. His work is mainly based on the role of the individual in the city and his physical or dreamlike construction. He plays with street objects in an unconventional way to reorganize them and give them a new (non)meaning. His creations live at the rhythm of the environment in which they are created and can therefore remain in place for only a few minutes. For his work in Besançon, Brad Downey adds two signs to create the word depressed in a nod to the rarely cheery front pages of newspapers.<br>Project created within the scope of the “5th Bien Urbain edition”, June 2015</div>

Depressed 

Lucy Mc Lauchlan

<div>Lucy Mc Lauchlan work is primarily in black and white. The very pure forms, with a controlled line and drawing from various traditions, are adapted to the walls she paints with a great attention to detail and context. Everything in this mural is in the movement and the floating effect of the characters who seem to adapt perfectly to the shape of the support.<br>Project created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Sretan Bor (CRO)

<div>On the occasion of the European artistic exchange project Recover the streets, 6 artists were invited to work with neighbors to ""reclaim the street"", create murals but also create a shared square and garden in a previously inaccessible space.&nbsp;<br>One of them, Mario, also known as Sretan Bor, is one of the most recognized young authors in the Balkan region. An avant-garde artist, he has already experimented with a wide range of media and made several interventions in the public space, taking the form of murals, illustrations, installations and animations.</div>

Magnetic

<div>On the occasion of the European artistic exchange project “Recover the streets”, 6 artists were invited to work with neighbors to "reclaim the street", create murals but also create a shared square and garden in a previously inaccessible space.&nbsp;<br>One of them, Magnetic, is a multi-faceted freelance artist. He is as interested in live model painting as he is in street art or woodworking. His starting environment is graphic design and web design. On the occasion of the project, he proposes three works made with Acrylic paint and posca on wood.</div>

Protection bleu

<div>In 20 years, 108's work has gone from traditional graffiti to abstract forms, yellow, then black and finally multicolored, which all have organic roots. The vaporous and dark atmosphere emerges in particular in his works from Bisontine. His abstract painting organic and almost floating forms, conducive to contemplation, even meditation. He improvises his painting on the spot, where black is prevalent.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”, September 2013</div>

Les abeilles gardent le Monde

Sièges Totem

Vilaine Frange

<div>Vincent Jacquin aka "SMALL", freelance graphic designer, has been running the SMALL STUDIO studio since 2007. Great lover of minimal and pure graphics, he plays on references and universally identifiable codes. Invited in Besançon, he collaborates and paints this mural with the artist and illustrator Vilaine Frange. The fresco is on one of the walls of a Hyperboisson store, as the different objects represented remind it.</div>

A. Signal

<div>On the occasion of the European artistic exchange project Recover the streets, 6 artists were invited to work with neighbors to ""reclaim the street"", create murals but also create a shared square and garden in a previously inaccessible space.&nbsp;</div>

S.O.S. Save Our Sources VS. The Coinsaw

<div>Since the 1980s, OX has been inspired by and manages to divert the codes and media of advertising imagery with a contextual work that sharpens our gaze and never ceases to surprise. His work with abstract forms embraces so much the close environment that it sometimes evokes narratives, comical situations or underlines the small or big urban aberrations.<br>Installation created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Station

Erosie

<div>Erosie works in a series of paintings, cycles, which have coexisted for over 15 years. He began painting through graffiti and lettering, and today his practice navigates between these forms and a more conceptual and often radical approach. He is one of the fervent animators of urban art without blinkers. In 2013, he offered the Bouloie campus a bit of his "Joie de vivre", through this colorful mural.<br>Project created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Joie de vivre

Hell'O Monsters

<div>A Brussels-based collective of three artists with a passion for fine art, Hell'O Monsters create incredibly detailed, seductive and disturbing scenes. They have a unique approach to mural painting where the finesse and consistency of their shared images makes it impossible to tell who did what. In the dreamlike paintings of the collective, ornament becomes camouflage and weirdness becomes aesthetics. Here a strange character seems to flee after a drinking party.&nbsp;<br>Project created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Lucy McLauchlan

<div>Lucy Mc Lauchlan work is primarily in black and white. The very pure forms, with a controlled line and drawing from various traditions, are adapted to the walls she paints with a great attention to detail and context. Everything in this mural is in the movement and the floating effect of the characters who seem to adapt perfectly to the shape of the support. Project created within the scope of the “3rd Bien Urbain edition”.</div>

Coexist

Harsa

<div>On the occasion of the European artistic exchange project “Recover the streets”, 6 artists were invited to work with neighbors to "reclaim the street", create murals but also create a shared square and garden in a previously inaccessible space.&nbsp;<br>One of them, Arantxa Recio Parra aka Harsa is a Spanish artist, illustrator, muralist and graphic designer. As evidenced by her colorful and narrative illustrations often featuring characters, Harsa enjoys working in rich and diverse projects, ranging from paper publishing to textile design.</div>

Autumn Garden

Salomé Baraër

<div>On the occasion of the European artistic exchange project Recover the streets, 6 artists were invited to work with neighbors to ""reclaim the street"", create murals but also create a shared square and garden in a previously inaccessible space.</div>

Artworks in Besançon