Three residents of a building, rue du Château, founded the Flag club project, the principle of which is to invite artists to display the flags they have created on the facade of the building.
This citizen and artistic initiative is to be discovered until this Sunday and could be extended for a week.
The founders of Flag club are already planning other exhibition sessions.
If you walk down rue du Château, in the center of Nantes, you will see thirty original flags on a building facade.
Installed in such a way as to form a gradient, going from the darkest to the lightest, the banners float on the windowsills.
They were created by ten artists and are on view until Sunday, but their exhibition could be extended for a week depending on "the weather and the resistance of the flags".
The project, entitled "Flag club", was launched by three residents of the building at 15 rue de Strasbourg: Adrien Bonnerot, designer and visual artist, his partner, Caroll Maréchal, graphic designer and doctoral student in social sciences, and their neighbor, Maxime Darmian, illustrator and graphic designer.
The principle: At each “round”, or exhibition session, artists are invited to create a flag which will then be displayed on the facade of the building of the co-initiators.
The idea germinated during the confinements.
Flames
“After drawing flags with my daughter during confinement, we thought jokingly that we could make an exhibition of them on the facade of the building”, says Adrien Bonnerot.
"The objective was to create commonality between the neighbors around the project but also to offer another form of urban art, as we often see in Nantes", he explains.
The citizens' initiative rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, launched in March 2020, had aroused the enthusiasm of these three artists.
During the confinement, residents of the neighborhood near Place Graslin began to hang flags on either side of the balconies.
For this first session, the ten artists, who are part of the entourage of the project leaders, had the opportunity to imagine a flag “in a fairly simple and intuitive way”.
No rule, no constraint.
Some left a central place to “an object or a drawing”, others preferred to work on “patterns”.
For future exhibitions, artists could make banners from different materials: "We are in contact with an artistic director for a sewing project", underlines Adrien Bonnerot.
The co-initiators give free rein to their imagination.
Flag club could also extend beyond Nantes.
Everything is still at the "experimental stage" but the ideas keep coming.
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