“CRACKING ART INVASION”, LE MANS

September 8 – October 11, 2015 | “Cracking Art Invasion” Place de Jacobins - Lyon (France)

From Friday September 18, the colony of giant snails, frogs and meerkats multicolored Cracking Art will call at Le Mans, where it will remain until 11 October.
The snails will pass on the Place des Jacobins, the frogs will be positioned on the front and 30 Quinconces meerkats is going to fix the high walls surrounding the apse of the cathedral.
The project was carried out in collaboration with Mac (Le Mans Contemporary Arts), the association Entre and the city of Le Mans.
To add charm to the installation is also the beneficial role that it exercises on the environment: all the works are made from recycled materials by Cracking Art Group, the international collective of artists from more than twenty years expressed through the use Plastics his artistic sense and social and environmental.
A first large snail will come out Tuesday morning in exploration, crawling towards the Place des Jacobins, to announce his impending arrival and that of his friends.
Then, as every evening for the duration of the show, she will return to its reserves, ready to do it again the next morning peeps.