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The mural painting which illustrates this stamp was realized in Tahiti last May 2015 during the Festival ONO'U by French artist Julien Malland alias Seth assisted by local artist HTJ. The artwork is visible in street Edouard Ahnne in Papeete. SETH immersed himself in the Polynesian culture to draw his inspiration and paint this magnificent portrait of a Tahitian young girl covered by a pareo, put into sleep on the pareo printed with white hibiscus flowers on red background. We can note several patterns taken from the traditional symbols of the Polynesian art and few referring to the more recent history of French Polynesia.
First international urban art event in French Polynesia, the ONO'U festival is primarily a place of sharing and intense artistic exchanges. It gathers in Tahiti some of the world’s most talented and renowned street
artists to paint breathtaking murals in the city center of Papeete.
Within 2 years, ONO’U has become one of the most prestigious urban art festival of the Pacific region and has initiated an unprecedented action of embellishment in Tahiti, mixing the tradition of the Polynesian culture and the modernity of street art.
The name of the festival, "ONO'U", is inspired by the fusion of both Tahitian words "ONO" (the link) and "U" (the colors) to express "the meeting of colors" in Tahiti through urban art.
Following the example of New York, Miami, Melbourne, Paris or São-Paulo, Tahiti becomes each year for a few days through the festival ONO' U an important international hub for the urban contemporary art in the South Pacific.
On the occasion of the World Stamp Show 2016 in New York, the French Polynesia Post Office sprays street art paintings from Tahiti towards the Pacific ocean to big apple, as a special gift from our Polynesian heart. |
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