The history of the Wall (Modular urban and responsive) began well before the first fresco in Bourges. The first sketch dates from 2013. Nathalie Loirot, who would become president of the collective, was then in Paris. An independent artist, she rediscovered graffiti at the Paris 13 Tower, a building doomed to destruction, offered to around a hundred street artists. “When I returned to Bourges, I told my friends that I had just seen something fabulous,” she remembers. With the agreement of the Bourges Plus Agglomeration, the first bomb was fired on the wall of the Weapons Room, in Lahitolle.
“The most beautiful WALL in France” and Navarre
In 2014, with the support of the mayor at the time, Pascal Blanc (April 2014-July 2020), followed the monumental work of the Tour bleue aux Gibjoncs, created by graffiti artists Disk, Zomeka and Morne. Then came the desire to perpetuate the thing: find a fixed place to accommodate this ephemeral art.
It was the concept of the Mur d’Oberkampf, a work of art located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, freely inspired by advertising displays and their frequency, which was adopted. “Once a fresco is made, it stays for two months, then a new one appears. A superposition of ephemeral works,” summarizes Nathalie Loirot. Dubbed by one of its creators, the artist Jean Faucheur, the Mur de Bourges, eighteenth of the name, was thus born.
