the essentials On March 31, Mix’Art Myrys, the self-managed artist collective, born in 1995 in Patte-d’Oie, will definitively leave the Ponts-Jumeaux premises to which it has no longer had access since January 2021. Without a new drop-off point.
We’re on sale! The last chapter in the long history of Mix’Art Myrys, begun in 1995 at Patte-d’Oie in the empty premises of the shoe manufacturer which gave its name to this self-managed collective of artists, is written at this end winter 2024. With a deadline: March 31.
That day, as a closing, or “finishing”, as Mix’Art says, in the parking lot of the site on rue Ferdinand-Lassalle, there will be a big clearance sale of everything that will still be on site: works of art abandoned as material of all kinds having been used to set up artists’ studios. In place of this vast hangar of more than 9,000 m2, the town hall, the owner, wants to build a school group.
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In recent days, dismantling has begun on site. A first meeting is given to supporters of Mix’Art this February 29, at the Motor site, Bonnefoy district. And, throughout the month of March, Mix’Art materials will be sold at low prices to other artist collectives in the region.
Mix’Art Myrys negotiated this release with the town hall. On December 1, the judicial court ordered the release of 12, rue Ferdinand Lassalle. Since January 20, 2021, the premises have been subject to an administrative closure decided by the town hall for security reasons. The municipality of Jean-Luc Moudenc put an end to fifteen years of a conflictual relationship which never led to an agreement, the sum requested by the collective for a renovation being considered too high by the Capitol.
In October 2021, Joël Lécussan, the coordinator of Mix’Art, revealed that an establishment in Ramonville was envisaged in conjunction with the mayor of the town, Christophe Lubac, and the departmental council which financed a feasibility study. The door has since been closed. Probably due to the cost of installation. “€4.5 million is not nothing, but for a project that allows national influence, it was worth it,” regrets Joël Lécussan.
After the Patte-d’Oie and the Grand-Hôtel on rue de Metz, via avenue de Muret and a site opposite the Garonne theater, is this the end of the long history of Myrys? In this form perhaps, but “we still hope”, says Joël Lécussan, convinced that “the lack” linked to the closure of Mix’Art will create a “need”. The coordinator does not forget the political terrain either: “the municipal election of 2026 will be a meeting to debate this. »
2024-02-27 06:16:00
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