The Doullens swimming pool will die a beautiful death. Already doomed to close to be replaced by the EldoradO inter-municipal aquatic center next October, the swimming pool had closed a little earlier, last April following technical failure. For its last months still on its feet, it will become an ephemeral museum of street-art. The public will be able to discover the work of at least 15 artists from August 26 to the end of 2022.
An exciting playground for Yann Colignon, director of the Curb structure and the Skatepark 80100 association. He had already distinguished himself for having launched the ephemeral street-art museum “Transition” in Abbeville last year. This new project that he will set up in two months is very exciting. “You don’t have the opportunity to paint a real swimming pool every day. It’s an original place.”
– Virginia Vandeville
Artists from the region as well as from all over France and abroad thus have carte blanche to take over the premises. On the other hand, a theme to be respected; it’s water.
– Virginia Vandeville
“There will be a lot of painting, but also collage and even a fresco done with a marker”, assures Yann Colignon. The entire enclosure of the establishment will thus be reworked by this group of artists.
– Virginia Vandeville
A popular farewell for the swimming pool
A temporary transformation of the swimming pool which was important for the Mayor of the City. “The closure was premature and brutal for the inhabitants. We said to ourselves that we could not let the swimming pool close definitively without accompanying its disappearance. I do not know of a swimming pool which is a place of artistic exhibitions in the form of street -art”assures Christelle Hiver.
Note that the exhibition will be free. A way to“open arts and culture to all”, further specifies the chosen one.