A neighborhood meeting place
It is a color splash in a gray concrete universe. The monumental fresco of red and yellow bricks and the ceramic circles dyed blue, erected in 1987 by the French mosaic artist Charles Gianferrari (1921-2010), is located in Rue Jean-Cottin, at the end of a cherry lined alley. The negligible public authorities and invaded by the bushes, the work remains a meeting point for the locals: a “village square” where people walk and connect, said Martine Bussaussou of the Réilience 18 collective, Whatich is campaigning to save him. To “open the neighborhood”, the City Council of the 18Th The district plans to create “a road that leads to the destruction of the wall,” said Mario González, Vical of Mayor in charge of urban planning, who clarified that “a demolition date is not established.” However, in mid -February, residents were informed that it was “imminent.”
The work of a renowned Mosaic artist
Beyond its social function, work has patrimonial value. Gianferrari contributed to bold architectural projects worldwide: in 1968, he erected a monumental urn in the utopian city of Auroville in southern India, which contains a handful of land from all countries of the world. In 1983, he designed the brilliant roof of the National Haitian Pantheon Museum, which houses the symbolic remains of the founding parents of Haiti. In France, the geometric floor of the City Council in Grenoble is attributed, created in 1968 with millions of marble trigs (and classified, along with other elements of the building, such as historical monuments in February). According to Labeliencia 18, this is proof of the “aid” of the destruction project in northern Paris, since they claim a “right to art, only in working -class neighborhoods.”
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