Artaq, the first street art festival of Angers is in town for three days since may the 27th. Born in New York city in the 70s', the street art has, for a long time, been conceived as something minor art at best, as vandalism acts at worst. At the beginning, it was only repetitive signatures spray-painted on walls.
But now, street art is everywhere : in exhibitions, museums and even at home. So what is the reason of such a festival in Angers "where anti-tags squads track down and erase them in short time. Because creation has nothing to do with deterioration ", says Jean-Claude Antonini in the city hall website. "Expression surfaces like the wall of the Chabada or graphic design on voltage transformers are testimonies of that".
Some of the pieces of the festival can be seen at the Ralliement theater, the Ronceray abbay and in the parking lot of town hall and in others places till the end of september. [For more informations : http://www.angers.fr/index.php?id=53955]
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