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WIRE

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:03:06 +0000

Wire

Born in 1978, Erwan Wire alias Wire 978 is a French artist from urban culture.

Passionate about painting and illustration, he immersed himself very early in the world of comics.

It was upon his arrival in the Paris region that he discovered a real interest in Graffiti and Street Art.

After studying in the Faculty of Fine Arts and training in Schools of Applied Arts, he joined an Advertising Marketing agency as a Graphic Designer / Illustrator.

A prolific and multidisciplinary artist, he participates in numerous artistic and socio-cultural events in France and across Europe (Germany, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Spain, Portugal….)

Inspired by Action painting and Calligraphy, his very spontaneous work is based on energy and movement. He mixes his inspirations with the purest traditions of Graffiti on the wall, but also on different mediums of expression (Canvas, Zinc, Wood, Plexiglass, glass, clay ...) allowing him to experiment with new creative techniques.

In a different approach from what he can achieve in the street, in his workshop he presents a more abstract universe, favoring rhythm and body language. A combination of lines, curves and colors that give a musical and dynamic sense to his compositions. The body being an integral part of the work, he constantly navigates between painting and music and continues to juggle with words as with colors.

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Andrew Wallas

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:55:18 +0000

ANDREW WALLAS

Andrew Wallas, self-taught and versatile artist, manipulates both the brush and the spraycan. He is constantly looking for harmony through shapes and volumes, shadows and lights.

All his art is based on capturing immediate emotions which he most often translates through portraits.

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Bebar

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:52:23 +0000

BEBAR

Young Franco-Spanish artist, BEBAR started graffiti very early. At 16 he became a member of the NSK Crew and decided to sign his paintings not with lettering but with a cartoon character expressing disgust.

His artistic approach would later be defined as a clever mix between street art and academic touches, due to his studies at a prestigious Parisian national art school.

Thanks to this dual approach, he was able to create an easily recognizable personal style that he likes to call Bebarbarie and thus participate in the major renovation project of his hometown Vitry-sur-Seine alongside Stew, Meushay and C215.

In 2013, he joined the MAC Crew and settled as a yearlong resident at the Narvaland workshop alongside Kongo and Colorz.

In 2014, it was in the WIB Crew that he took his place and painted alongside Frez and Shiche.

Attracted to New York, the cradle of the culture he loves so much, in 2015 he obtained an ERASMUS International scholarship allowing him to follow part of his studies for 6 months at La Parsons School. There he met "old-timers" like Sonic, Kister, Ink176, Ree, Frank, Nest ... Leading him to join several New York crews like the MSK TNG ROA and BAD crew.

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Blunt

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:50:14 +0000

blunt

Blunt Eastwood was born in the early 80s in the Paris region. He always drew and became interested in graffiti when he saw the paintings of the little belt in Paris.

Then, at the end of the 90s, the graffiti painted on the Paris Saint-Lazare line motivated him to get started. He then did some graffiti on the tracks and on the ground, in abandoned factories for example.

In 2008, he moved to Argentina. There he painted a lot in the street because the culture of paintings and murals is much more present there than in Europe. He then mixes spray paint and roller paint. In 2014 he returned to France where he continued to paint, in land most of the time.

His graffiti style is European with a strong tendency to complex and intertwined letters. He likes to put bright and happy colors in paintings. These sources of inspiration are his peers, particularly the FMKs, the NCCs, the TRPs, contemporary artists.

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Cannibal Letters

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:48:53 +0000

Cannibal letters

Originally from Paris, graphic designer and passionate about drawing, Cannibal Letters started in 1999 under several pseudonyms before really asserting themselves in 2010 under this name.

At the center of his work is typography, his passion, but also a world of comics and illustrations in which he finds an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

With him, letters are eaten with all sauces and without moderation. On all possible supports, from drawing to canvas, from baseball bats to motorcycle helmets, of course on the walls.

His artistic research is indeed focused around the letter that he raises to the rank of main subject in his work and that he uses in all its forms without excluding the addition of illustrative elements such as characters or other objects of everyday life to complete his universe.

The letter alone is no longer the only excuse to produce, he also tries all the techniques. Acrylic paint, spray paint, graffiti to screen printing, or even scenography like at LAB 14 and REHAB 2 while trying to develop his work on each project.

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Cost

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:47:21 +0000

COST

Self-taught artist born in Paris in 1982, Cost has always drawn and today learns to master different techniques by working on various supports.

Driven by the Hip Hop culture of the 90s, he then launched into the world of graffiti in 96. Everything accelerated with his entry into the TPK crew. Passionate about heights, he specialized in graffiti on roofs until he made it his trademark.

He continually tries to perfect his figurative portraits, which he paints in order to recount his experiences.

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Dante

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:10:37 +0000

Dante

Passionate about drawing since childhood, Dante discovered graffiti when he was a teenager. He then became interested in letter writing and painted his first walls in Brittany, where he came from.

Subsequently he lived successively in several cities and the meetings he could make there nourished his creativity and opened up new perspectives for him.
In parallel with the letter he likes the character and his paintings begin to transcribe stories gradually.

Upon his arrival in Paris in 2015, he discovered a new scene and a new city which was for him an inexhaustible source of inspiration. His character continues to evolve in this new setting and then transcribes stories from his daily life.
Besides that, he also discovers workshop work and likes new supports for creating.

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Dink

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:08:57 +0000

Dink

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Fast

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:07:35 +0000

Fast

FAST, initiated by SAN TRP, began graffiti in 1986, painting in Stalingrad, Garibaldi or Mouton Duvernet. From 1988 to 2000, he focused on painting on rolling media (metros and trains) and was recognized for his graphic quality and his elaborate characters.

Activist of "real graffiti", his work on canvas is an extension of this universe. It belongs in particular to the TNB, UV TPK, 156 and BANDIDOS crew groups.

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Frez

Hugo Faivre — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:05:37 +0000

Frez

Graffiti artist of the 90s, creator of the WIB group and member of TPK UV Crew, FREZ is known for his many urban achievements in different places and countries and on multiple supports.

For the past ten years, he has been developing an urban and underground universe on canvas by working with acrylic, oil and aerosol techniques, and by integrating various materials such as sand mortar.

Borrowing from his life experience and from references to comics, horror films and horror, through his paintings unfolds a world on the border between reality and fantasy where taggers, graffiti artists, onlookers, B-Boys meet , zombies, unlikely creatures or its famous butterflygirls.

He regularly presents his works in individual or group exhibitions, such as those in particular from the Wagram post “Open-air museum”, Gallery 154, the Bloc, 5 Beaubourg, the exhibition “Welcome to Bahia” (Paris 10th) , or more recently with "152 Writers Galerie" and in Aerosol.

Photo credits : Frez

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