{"id":8349,"date":"2020-05-21T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/oeuvres\/le-geant-de-nantes-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:38:26","slug":"le-geant-de-nantes","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/artworks\/le-geant-de-nantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Le G\u00e9ant de Nantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"VAN22_CHAPEAU\"><p>By offering local businesses the chance to have artists reinterpret their signage, Le Voyage involves some of the city&rsquo;s most active members in the creative process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00c9ric&nbsp;Croes creates hybrid objects that are born of fables and legends, <em>cadavres exquis<\/em>, popular culture, outsider or tribal art, memories of childhood passions, and objects discovered in archaeology museums. For the haberdashery Falbalas Saint-Junien,&nbsp;he has created a benevolent giant in grandiloquent headgear. Covered in an array of lucky charms, this \u201cgood genie\u201d has vowed to protect the boutique and surrounding streets, wearing a beaver\u2019s tale (allusion to the original shop named \u201cAu vrai castor\u201d or \u201cThe True Beaver\u201d), references to Nantes and its maritime symbols (Neptune\u2019s trident \u2013 which refers to the city\u2019s motto, \u201cNeptune favours those who travel\u201d), as well as different protective symbols (a clover, a <em>mano cornuto<\/em>)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c9ric Croes was born in 1978. 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