Artista francés
pionero en el uso de la técnica del estarcido para los graffiti (1981), que luego empleará también
Banksy. Retratar personajes conocidos por el mundo y afirma que su intención no es otra que hablar con los dibujos a la sociedad y defiende el arte del graffiti frente a las prohibiciones y multas
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"^[...]The graffiti movement has no other intention than to speak via
pictures. Words for the community, words of love, words of hatred, of
life and death. It’s just a fine and subtle kind of therapy and an
attempt to fill the emptiness of this terrible world, to cover public
space with pictures that people going to work can enjoy. But the
authorities were not sympathetic to our cause and declared war on
graffiti. They invented a lot of laws and waged war until every little
stencil graffiti or art expression had been stripped of its soul. Young
artists were threatened with punishments and fines completely out of
proportion to the act. As if graffiti were more dangerous than drugs. But
the immense desire to paint and to express themselves encourages
artists to support one another. Doing it all around the world, they
made this urban art into the biggest art movement of the 20th
century; just look at the spread of their pictures and the authenticity
they radiate. There is no place in the world with no mural artistic
traces. Even in Peking, under the strongest regime, there is a man leaving his mark right at this
moment. However, urban art is still seen as a spreading blemish on the
urban face. Personally, I think the colors of our sprays help the urban
landscape to bloom with poetic intentions".
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| NYC, 2006 |
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| Tributo a Tom Waits, 1983 |
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| Último tango en París, 1986 |
