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After his round the world race, Titouan Lamazou is offering another way of going around the world with his portraits of women from 18th October 2008 to 30th March 2009 at the Abbaye Sainte-Croix Museum in Les Sables d’Olonne: the exhibition "Women of the World", was proclaimed open on Saturday 18th October at 6.30 in the evening in the presence of the artist and many racers and friends of the winner of the first edition of the Vendée Globe: Marc Pinta, Philippe Poupon, Jean-François Coste, Jean-Luc van Den Heede, Yvon Fauconnier…

Titouan Lamazou has had plenty of opportunity to feast his eyes on seascapes: in twenty years of sailing, stopovers, winds, storms and emotions, he has been around the world again with his crayon in his hand and the viewfinder in front of his eyes to give birth to a splendid collection of photos and drawings from around the world presenting portraits of women in every condition on every continent. On display at the Musée de l’Homme museum in Paris since October 2007 and now extended from March to June, the exhibition, «Women of the world» has already had 185,000 visitors. 

The public can thus discover the artist´s fabulous artistic work in two ways: 
- An indoor exhibition: fifteen large photos and around twenty drawings are on show at the Abbaye Sainte-Croix Museum (from 14h30 to 17h30, except Monday and bank holidays. Free entry on the first Sunday of the month). 
- An outdoor exhibition: blow-ups of 21 drawings (size 1.50 m x 2 m) are spread out on easels and walls between the "Place du Vendée Globe" and the fishing harbour, and can be viewed for free. This open-air exhibition with a series of portraits (sketches from his voyage) leads the public on foot towards the town centre in Les Sables d’Olonne. From 18th October 2008 to 30th March 2009, Boulevard de l’Ile Vertime and rue Octave Voyer. 

Titouan Lamazou´s models were chosen to represent a wide range of social classes. The female characters are portrayed in their relevant background: favela, desert, dispensary, brothel, department store, street, on a bridge… We can clearly see the personal touch of Titouan Lamazou and his own vision through these contrasting, opposing, yet beautiful pictures. The artist pays homage to women in his work, but in the end it is mankind that he is depicting in these magnificent works. 

« For twenty years, I have gone around the world from port to port. When I brought my professional yachting career to an end, I continued to travel more by land and from a cultural standpoint. This travelling lifestyle taught me that meeting individual people around the world was more important than crossing nations and continents… Since then, I have visited fifteen areas around the world on five continents, to witness both the common concerns expressed by mankind and the wonderfully infinite diversity which is revealed by women, » explained Titouan Lamazou.

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