Mygalo 2000, Posada’s calaveras and a body of Paris truck graffiti
Not street art, usually, graffiti on Parisian trucks: a new middle area. Skeletons and skulls, graphic in the way of typo-graffiti, but carrying messages tied to death, love, twerking - too...
View ArticleGraffiti artist and former carpenter SAMBRE interviewed on his wooden artworks
The first time we met he pointed me to the illegal and ephemeral exhibition organised by his crew, 1984, due to take place at a secret location the day of the 2012 French Presidential election. The...
View ArticleInterview with French abstract graffiti artist Nelio
Nelio had been staying in Buenos Aires for five months prior to painting on the Seine’s Left Bank at Le M.U.R. XIII, pictured above, learning Spanish, collaborating with local artists, and avoiding the...
View ArticleLe MUR by AMOR flags up French arms trade
Naively painted animals toting guns on a public wall in Paris? Chatting with Argentinian artist Jorge Pomar (AMOR), reveals he experiences little anxiety over the potential clash of such imagery. In...
View ArticleReflections on the multifaceted ‘flower guy’ Michael De Feo
Words by Jess Zimmerman: Michael de Feo feels just as much at home getting in trouble with the cops in Amsterdam as he does dishing out the art world jargon. This multifaceted artist —part street, part...
View ArticleInterview with Portuguese artist Hazul Luzah in Paris
Hazul Luzah is an artist who predominates on the streets of Porto, Portugal’s second city after Lisbon. A self-taught graffiti writer, who has developed a style blending classic lettering, transformed...
View ArticleGraffiti at Place de la République
Place de la République, and after an accidental fire at the recently built Cafe Monde et Média, a three-metre high hoarding is erected while it undergoes repair, which the Paris townhall hands to a...
View ArticleIntra Larue gets work of her chest in Belleville
French street artist Intra Larue started casting plaster sculptures from her breasts as a joke. She works a day-job and hasn’t told her father about the endeavour yet, which is surprising because with...
View ArticleGestures of love at the Pont des (street) Arts
The Pont des Arts, connecting the Louvre to Rive Gauche of Paris, once carried the weight of hundreds of thousands of lovers. Once upon a time couples would latch a lock manifesting their love,...
View ArticleDavid de la Mano on his ethereal creatures and “improvisation”
David de la Mano, rue Jenner detail. Spanish mural artist David de la Mano’s newest commission finds itself in the heart of Paris’s 13th arrondissement. This building-sized work on rue Jenner near...
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