Artist and contemporary art visionary Marc Boucherot will hold an exhibition at the Château de Port-Miou in Marseille starting Friday, 2nd of June. On the occasion of the exhibition, we are pleased to share an interview and article about Marc from CRASH98.

Opening of Port Mior on Friday, June 2, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. @Château de Port-Miou, 50 av des Calanques, Marseille.

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Sun without shade, shattered landscapes, no water, no footpath, no subsidies or grants, forty degrees, twenty- five kilograms to carry every day through the hills and just a couple of weeks to make the gold of the Calanques shine… Listen! Port Mior is an open-air exhibition and it’s a smoking gun. It’s at once a news story and it is history. It’s an epic novel and it’s a movie. It’s Fitzcarraldo and General Suter. It’s a true story.
It’s the greatest story in the world. It’s the story of the discovery of gold in Port Mior. Let me tell you about the man who started the gold rush in the Calanques in 2022, 23, 24, 25. My story is the story of the first French artist who was ruined by his discovery of gold, and the gold that drove him mad: Marc Boucherot. “Who wants gold? Who wants to paint the mountain gold?” Boucherot didn’t know that it was impossible, so that was what he did. Twenty years after L’Attaque du Petit Train and La Vie en Rose, Boucherot attacks the Calanques National Park and pays tribute to all the workers who dreamed of gold, deep in the quarries and beyond. “When I have finished, I will give you all my gold, the gold that belongs to you, just gold, purified gold. The gold of God.”

Marc Boucherot’s work is driven by the clash of the face and heart. With his face exposed, he moves without gloves, without an agent, with the conviction of the righteous: his god is his work, his performances are his apostles, those who love him follow him, straight ahead, smiling wide, forward! insolent guard! The site of Port Miou, a placidly wounded ancient cove, chose him.
In return, Boucherot heard its call. He heard the voices of antiquated industry whistling the songs of sweat and misery in ricochet. So he set to work, uniting his allies, a team to score and exhume the crumbling values of labor, gilding these impure relics, these echoes of effort, rusted by the shame of indifference and the sloth of the soul. Unearthing treasures as a buccaneer of art is an exquisite task. Marc Boucherot is neither a miner nor a coal worker, he is a free and radical artist, an artist in solid gold!
Myriam Boisaubert, Grand prize of magic formulas.