French Artist Creates Illusory View in a Town Famous for It’s Prints of Another Century
ASTRO. Epinal, France. June 2018. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
Known for its humorist take on daily norms of societal behavior, historical events, fantasy adventures in the imagined world, and European man’s manifest destiny to conquer, the famous Imagerie d’Epinal flourished here in the 19th Century with thousands of prints and products exported far afield to other continents.
Today you can tour this illusory world in its namesake Epinal in the museum and workshops.
ASTRO. Epinal, France. June 2018. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
Additionally in this small city of 45,000 you can see its newest “Perpetual Illusion”, a four story mural by French graffiti/Street Artist Astro.
His unique techniques of optical illusion takes you back in space, often leading you to a place that looks like it would be sleekly modern and full of even, calming, light. The city itself has quite a few murals around and is well poised to receive this new art in the streets, facilitated by the Jourdains of Mathgoth Gallery in Paris.
ASTRO. Epinal, France. June 2018. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
ASTRO. Epinal, France. June 2018. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
ASTRO. Epinal, France. June 2018. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
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