THE LEGENDARY ROYAL
For almost a decade, La RoyaL Légendaire has been operating in the sphere of street art and contemporary art. Their works draw inspiration from universal myths, medieval times and popular culture. In the tradition of the pioneers of street art, they shape their mark by installing ephemeral works transcending the city and countryside border. Their approach consists of digging creative tunnels of escape, crossing the ordinary of people. La RoyaL also designs unclassifiable exhibitions with multiple and varied structures.
There is no local nor international, rural nor urban, private nor municipal,
art is everywhere.
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Exhibition Selection
2023
Centenary of the birth of Bernard Manciet. Sabres, ALCA, OARA, New Aquitaine.
2023
LEGENDARY MOORS. House of Orality and Heritage, Capbreton.
2023 “Meravilha” The Atrium art gallery, Dax.
2022 Twin pine parradox, Gare de l’Art, Saint-Paul en Born
2021 Eclectik Galerie 116 rue de turenne, Paris
2021 Organization of the Legendary Landes Festival, Airial de Bouricos
2019 Cagnara, Public Gallery, London England
2018 Arte Musica Nature, Museo Orto Botanico, Roma Italy
2017 Dancity Festival, Foligno Italy
2017 Ipsius fortunae, Album Arte Gallery, Roma Italy
Le Projet
"Essaie Comme Montaigne"
La RoyaL Légendaire a parcouru
la frontière entre Dordogne et Gironde, recréant le lien entre Montaigne et ses terres par des installations
éphémères et un travail multidisciplinaire, mêlant poésie, photographie et dialogue. Le photographe
Tchane Ok a documenté ce périple rural, capturant les rencontres et les installations de street art dans les
villages avoisinant le Château de Montaigne.
THE QUEST FOR TERRITORY
To go into the depths of a territory is to indulge in the dizziness of life and the elements that compose it. It’s never scratching more than the surface. The physical senses open to the scraps of stories that reach us. Raw materials and inexhaustible resources from Imaginaire.
CURVE I
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Like the adventurous archaeologist, we have reconstructed a rare and disappeared burial in the south-west of France. This act of reconstitution, in a painting installed in an isolated abbey church, launched the Légendaire Landes project.
CURVE II
We continued our physical and symbolic exploration of the territory through Lahire, a unique historical figure whose name is inscribed on an asset of the traditional French game. The Jack of Hearts. Rich and confusing journey into the symbolism of images.
CURVE III
Well versed in the symbolism of images, and in the strength that can be drawn from mythological figures from a specific territory, we have created painted apparitions in the face of the attacks of the modern world.
LATCHERS OF THE LEGENDARY
We seek in the breath of origins, the little melody which reminds us that everything was legend and fear winged with respect. Love of a hatching or a sunrise.
Vibrant attention to the world is the first condition of creation, we watch for this first legend. Who can boast of creating? Translating is already a lot.
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AUDIO GUIDE
For the occasion, we designed amplified pictorial works at the crossroads of rock narration and griotic mystical songs.
Exposure
THE MOP
House of Orality and Heritage.
Headquarters and epicenter of the Capbreton international storytelling festival.
For the 39th edition, we were invited to present the Légendaire Landes project.
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Meravilha
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The “wonderful” tells the immensity of the times of a territory and touches the joyful heart of childhood.
It is the thickness of a dreamed memory.
PERIOD ROOM
The street art works of RoyaL created a stir in the territory, and the written press documented their mystery. An investigation has been launched to get hold of the author(s) of the artistic works.
This Room period is the mise en abyss
And Inspector “Dicharry” says the Basque Fox, the personification.
INTERACTIVE WORKS
The “wonderful” tells the immensity of the times of a territory.
Teaser Meravilha
image Loula Production
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TV report
ATRIUM Gallery
A constant in our approach, we work with history, time and space.
The opportunity to exhibit in the Dax Atrium pushed us to develop a wonderful experience.
For the occasion, we have particularly placed emphasis on the arrangement of the works.
ACTORS
The Royal played its own role as troublemaker by suggesting an occupation of the Atrium. The context of the opening coincided with a national strike.
Blocked until it’s time to “pop the screen”, and the public enters the exhibition dazzled
“Meravilha”.
Each work then equipped with a particular device accompanied by actors personifying the universe.
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Art Station Gallery
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THE KNOTS
A series of nodes to immerse yourself in a colorful and captivating universe. Simple, ambivalent and multiple.
Also, the knots evoke the links that unite us between friends, our paths, the impenetrable paths of love or destiny.
Knots to tie or undo.
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THE GOLDEN TREE
Nickname of the moorland pine.
The golden tree evokes economic value, and transcends it by referring to alchemy: the transmutation of chlorophyll into gold.
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CURVED PINES
Against the usual uprightness of the pine, curved pines are a way of questioning, of approaching; and finally to promote the true nature of pine - which is to be flexible.
Know it :
For having so selected rectitude,
in the subtle world the curve
is queen.
Twin Pine Paradox
As part of the second Nuits des Forêts, La RoyaL was entrusted with the artistic component for the Art station in the heart of the Landes de Gascogne.
Spotlight on the relationship between art and environment,
and moment to mobilize civil, political and scientific society around our common future.
The Royal took the opportunity to explore our relationship with the majority and almost mono-crop tree of the Landes: The Pine.