1st ApRiL 2015
"Sharing our culture is the beginning of creativity." - Le petit bateau philosophy
It was one evening at the 3 Wise Monkeys Pub in Sydney and someone told me about Le Petit Bateau in Bondi. It was a few months later I decided to take a look there and I got the chance to discover a very nice spot in Bronte Rd.
It is like a big building where people from different nationalities live together: Italian, French, Swiss, Polish, German etc..
As soon as I entered the backyard, an Italian guy offered me a coffee. It was not the best one I had but for sure the most welcoming one. [I am not saying that because I'm Italian btw].
Gaetano, that was his name, started immediately telling me about their project.
Le Petit Bateau is an art collective launched in May 2014.
Everything started into a garage and backyard space, conceived by Anne-Sophie Ridelaire, a curator from Paris, and her fiancé Gaetano Russo, an Italian boat designer [and the guy with the coffee to me ;)]
LBP is composed by visual artists, performers, musicians, designers, architects from all over the world, working together to promote Art in all its forms and make it "user friendly".
The two guys (AnSo + Gaetano) share the dream to create a gallery on a boat, with the message that "you never know which way things are going to go".
At that time they were taking part to The Big Picture Project.
"The Big Picture Project is a show of grand scale contemporary photography exposes, the possibility of images as art via email, instantly exchanged globally and blown up to large mural proportions."
These images are expanded as large Xerox prints and displayed inside the gallery as well as posted in approved outdoor locations. All began in the city of Denver in USA and then it spread all around the globe. And Sydney is a sister city of this project.
Have a look to this video to make yourself an idea of this dream reality in Bondi.
Well... it's all for today... a big big hug!
Don't let small minds convince that your dreams are too big.
"Sharing our culture is the beginning of creativity." - Le petit bateau philosophy
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| Me in my creative order |
It is like a big building where people from different nationalities live together: Italian, French, Swiss, Polish, German etc..
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| Le Petit Bateau - backyard where I had my coffee |
As soon as I entered the backyard, an Italian guy offered me a coffee. It was not the best one I had but for sure the most welcoming one. [I am not saying that because I'm Italian btw].
Gaetano, that was his name, started immediately telling me about their project.
Le Petit Bateau is an art collective launched in May 2014.
Everything started into a garage and backyard space, conceived by Anne-Sophie Ridelaire, a curator from Paris, and her fiancé Gaetano Russo, an Italian boat designer [and the guy with the coffee to me ;)]
LBP is composed by visual artists, performers, musicians, designers, architects from all over the world, working together to promote Art in all its forms and make it "user friendly".
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| Le Petit Bateau - building @ Bronte Rd. |
The two guys (AnSo + Gaetano) share the dream to create a gallery on a boat, with the message that "you never know which way things are going to go".
At that time they were taking part to The Big Picture Project.
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| Le Petit Bateau - The Big Picture Project |
These images are expanded as large Xerox prints and displayed inside the gallery as well as posted in approved outdoor locations. All began in the city of Denver in USA and then it spread all around the globe. And Sydney is a sister city of this project.
Have a look to this video to make yourself an idea of this dream reality in Bondi.
Well... it's all for today... a big big hug!
Don't let small minds convince that your dreams are too big.
