Artists from Paris, Montreuil, Nîmes, Touraine, Togo and Chile have painted and created here, in residence, among the trees.
A self-taught artist passionate about graphic arts since the age of 12, Espion works with spray paint, drawing and body painting. He created the “graffiti tour” in Montreuil, where his studio is, and won a Silver award for his giant owl on a house front. During his 2019 summer residency he painted two monumental works for the park, “Le cri de la forêt” and “L’esprit de la forêt” — the first is a huge 8 × 3 m gorilla echoing the château’s emblem, Môh the gorilla.
Originally from Togo, Sitou left a career in finance for street art. A pioneer of street art in West Africa, where he “makes the walls speak”, he promotes urban culture through festivals, exhibitions and workshops for young people. The chameleon, his totem, stands for adaptation and diversity. For the Street Art Parc he painted a large, colourful mural on a wooden fence.
Mosko began painting savannah animals in Paris’s Moskowa district in 1989, then stencilled the streets with Michel Allemand as “Mosko et associés”, aiming to “brighten everyday surroundings”. Noticed at the Tour Paris 13, he now works solo, in the studio and in the street. In 2019 he left his mark on the park with an outsized purple panther.
Rooted in graffiti and electronic music culture, StayReo blends arrows, curves, pipes and breaks, spray paint and acrylic, in an impressionist urban style — a painter and DJ mixing colours like tracks. His 2019 work “Human matrix” was destroyed by a falling tree in a storm; in 2020 he created “Mandatory mask”, a graphic piece on the theme of the mask.
A Paris-based French artist, Tetar has built his own graphic language between painting and writing, tag and art brut, automatic writing and primitive art, painting by instinct. For the park he created a large black-and-white mural on metal panels — deceptively geometric, like an enigmatic new visual script.
A graphic designer and painter from Nîmes and co-founder of the La Ruche collective, SupoCaos tells stories through figurative elements set on colourful structures. For the park he created a fictional, futuristic city cut out of a fence — as realistic as it is humorous.
Living between Paris and Montsoreau (his gallery, 3ème Art), Alan Reullier is a visual artist and graffiti writer working with resin, paint on cardboard or aluminium and assemblies of aircraft parts. Shown at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, he reinterpreted Paris metro doors for the park’s opening, then added “Au cœur Duchamp ou l’Arbre des libertés” in 2021. He also decorated the château’s Maison Compostelle.
Born in 1965, photographer Moha works at the Albatros studios in Montreuil, roaming the city in search of unseen human and urban scenes. For the park he printed and pasted his street views onto Paris metro doors, playing with the transparency of the windows.
Raised by an artist grandfather, Gil KD started spray painting in Paris at 22. A nurse by training, she puts people — women above all — at the heart of her work. Based in Touraine, she paints her “filles du vent”: free, strong women of the world, protective sentinels of the places they occupy.
A Paris-based graffiti writer born in 1989, active since the 1990s. For the park, Team shows his vision of the cosmos in a chaotic, evolving scene dominated by his signature graphic, geometric explosion.
Born in Chile in 1974, he lives and works in Montreuil. A painter and illustrator, he trained at the fine arts school of the Catholic University of Chile.
“My artist name is Skio — I started graffiti at 16 without knowing what it was!” After studying graphic design he drew on the Bauhaus, de Chirico, Magritte and Dalí, founded the Riofluo collective in Paris in 2008, and describes himself as a contemporary artist painting people in the city.
Drope Oner made his first graffiti in the streets of Évreux, armed with brushes, spray cans and airbrush. In the park he painted a wooden fence with a wacky, exploded character — a plant magician composing his own imaginary nature.
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