He transforms an Ivry dump into an artistic installation

Entering the land shaped by Bisk is a bit like stepping into a contemporary art museum.

You never know if the extinguisher you just brushed against is not part of the exhibition.

It is the same with the “Terrain vague” of this artist installed in Ivry: anything that may seem trivial, a pebble on which we have just slipped, can in reality be part of this vertiginous project, which contains thousands of details. and objects.

Paint cans, keys, cans, bricks, metal parts ...

With Bisk any material ready to make art, including a pile of rubble.

Fanny Delporte

It was at the start only a "big mountain", tons of rubble discovered by the artist, sculptor and painter, when he arrived on this private but neglected land which directly adjoins the Totoro, this cultural place of " free expression ”installed in a warehouse formerly used as a consignment shop for household appliances.

Today he is their neighbor and in a way the guardian of this colorful squat, in the middle of which floats only one touch of black: a pirate flag.

The artist receives the public on this ground that he may have to leave overnight.

Fanny Delporte

"It's been eight months that I am here and that I produce"

“I've been here and producing for eight months,” says Bisk, who comes from street art and is one of the artists of the V3M collective, whose workshops are next to a military field not far from Melun.

Tagger, graffiti artist, painter and sculptor, he saw the paintings he sold and the orders he received.

Recently, he was one of the artists exhibited in Vitry in restaurant windows, transformed into art galleries.

One of the paintings made by the artist and which comes closest to his daily work.

Fanny Delporte

City in which he was one of the members of Barges de écluse, these artists who illegally occupied for two years the old inn of the lock at the Port-à-l'Anglais bridge. He continued to create there what makes his trademark: very colorful paintings, saturated with lines and curves on which he often lets paint drip. Works exhibited in a room of this new squat which acts as an exhibition hall. But it is in fact only a very small part of it.

Because in total it is 1000 square meters that Bisk has invested in every nook and cranny.

“The barges closed and I got here,” he says.

I started by painting the walls and the garbage cans.

In fact, waste that would have been left there by a company with an unknown identity.

“We could see the mountain from the street,” says Bisk.

They were partially removed, leaving a "smooth" ground, and it is another idea which germinated in the head of the plastic artist: to make an artistic installation "immersive", with a course to follow until the bottom of the ground. .

"I could have continued to infinity"

Day after day, Bisk spray-painted everything that could possibly be sprayed.

Transforming what was left of the garbage, gathered under a shed, into monsters with big protruding eyes.

Like the "vomitor", whose mouth rejects "all the objects of our society": a TV, erotic books, a slide, a vacuum cleaner ... "I wanted each area to have an interest", he explains.

On the "Wasteland", the piles of garbage are transformed into monsters with big protruding eyes.

Fanny Delporte

Like this large table on which he has set the table, with plates made up of elements of rubble preserved from the very first “piles”.

"But after a while you had to stop and show, otherwise it's interminable, I could have continued ad infinitum", estimates the artist.

Some will only see it as a colorful dumping ground.

Others a form of genius.

In any case, he received the visit of curious people, fans of street art, residents of the neighborhood.

With in mind the possibility that everything could stop overnight.

At 15 rue Jules-Ferry, every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.