Titouan Lamazou

Titouan Lamazou

Beneath starry skies

 

Titouan Lamazou

Beneath starry skies

To mark the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe — a single-handed, non-stop, unassisted round-the-world sailing race — Titouan Lamazou is to feature as Les Sables d’Olonne’s guest of honour at the MASC museum of modern and contemporary art. Titouan Lamazou was the first winner of this now legendary race. 

Both sailor and artist, Titouan Lamazou travels the world, painting and drawing as he goes. In his many ports of call, his works of wanderlust have captured faces and vistas through images and words intertwined in his notebooks, on paper, on canvas or directly on walls.

His latest works explore the mysteries of nature — inordinate, compelling and yet so fragile — in the wake of what scientists have termed and what Bruno Latour has theorised as the ‘critical zone’. This delicate layer, a mere few kilometres thick, stretching around the earth concentrates the biosphere’s essential resources both in the air and beneath the sea. Behind the exquisite and boundless beauty of Titouan Lamazou’s starry skies that chart courses from the Caribbean to the Marquesas Islands and rekindle long-buried histories, peaks a glimpse of the stewardship we owe to our landscapes.

His works and starry skies are a fitting echo of the great navigators who will be setting sail from Les Sables d’Olonne on 10 November 2024 for the ‘Everest of the seas’.