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Maroussia Rebecq

The Giant
09.23.11 - 10.16.11
Exhibition — Various places

Maroussia Rebecq
Le Géant , 2011
Courtesy of Maroussia Rebecq

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

Maroussia Rebecq

Le Géant, 2011

Courtesy of Maroussia Rebecq

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Maroussia Rebecq
Le Géant, 2011
Courtesy of Maroussia Rebecq

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Maroussia Rebecq

Le Géant, 2011

Courtesy of Maroussia Rebecq

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse

 

Maroussia Rebecq
Le Géant, 2011
Courtesy of Maroussia Rebecq

Photo : Le Printemps de Septembre-à Toulouse
 

Born in 1975, she lives and works in Paris.

 

In 2010, when checking out locations in Toulouse, Anne Pontégnie saw the Occitània Festival parade and was struck by the totemic, processional qualities of the event. It occurred to her that it could fit with her project. The Festival willingly accepted her suggestion that they collaborate with le Printemps de septembre.


The idea they agreed on was that the artist Maroussia Rebecq would accompany a group of volunteers in the conceiving, making and presenting various elements for the Festival parade, including a central totem. The function of this is to reflect and contain the concerns, ideas, desires, images and cultures of the group, becoming the enduring emblem of the community thus formed. The Calendreta association in Muret is organising the main group, and the Mission Locale in Toulouse is involving eight youngsters who are doing work experience.

 

Trained at the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, then a resident in Nantes for her post-diploma course, and after that at Villa Arson, Nice, the bubbly and indefinable French artist Maroussia Rebecq founded the Andrea Crews collective in 2002. This “trans- and multidisciplinary” organisation is best known for its brand of offbeat green clothes, made mainly from recycled and/or ecological materials, but it also creates children’s workshops and does installation-performances and exhibitions involving other artists.

 

 

17 September at 4.30 pm, starting at Quai de la Daurade

PASSA-CARRIÈRA, a spectacular festive parade featuring totemic animals and characters from Occitània and Catalonia, inaugurates the Occitània festival in the streets of Toulouse. It includes the giant conceived in collaboration with Maroussia Rebecq. www.festivaloccitania.com

 

23 September at 8.15 pm, Place du Capitole

The Giant accompanied by the calendretas associations of Toulouse and the young people of the Mission Locale will do a lap of honour on Place de l’Hôtel de Ville to mark the inauguration of the Printemps de Septembre.

In partnership with the Occitània Festival and the Mission Locale de Toulouse.

Co-production: Festival Occitània, Le Printemps de Septembre—à Toulouse, Mission Locale de Toulouse Centre (supported by Fondation Dexia).