Date: June 20, 2014
Mantis Eledone Volans
Codex Urbanus
Exposition, Insectes & Arachnides, Galerie Akiza ; Mai 2014
3 rue Tholozé, Montmartre – Paris ; France
Mantis Eledone Volans, Insectes & Arachnides
Night after night, the pages of a weird bestiary turn on the cement walls of the City of Lights. Some impossible creatures walk, fly and crawl, like illuminated medieval images, to generate surprise and poetry in the streets of Paris, before being rapidly recovered by the cleaning services of the Paris townhalls.
Codex Urbanus created an endless range of mutant animals, aware of their extremely short life span...