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    Artistes ailleurs en France

    • BRUSK

      Brusk is a French artist best known for his dripping style, who craves new techniques and discusses various media (photo, video, computer), thereby pushing its limits and opening up new creative worlds. He was born in 1976 in Saint-Priest(Lyon), with a pencil in his hand, Brusk spent his time scribbling until his encounter with the graffiti and Hip Hop in 1991.In control of numerous tools, he can work both with figures and abstraction, realism or graphic clean. His style developed over the years combines a calligraphic work in 3D, characters and tagging.

      Brusk manages to mix together different influences arising from the photography, comics, film but also its acuity to grasp the urban aesthetic. His willingness to transpose into worlds other than the original one led him to work on the textile, furniture design, various projects, and multimedia. Adopting new techniques and using various media, he pushes his own limits of creativity and opens the new artistic universe of his own. His style evolves over time and the technical mastery allows him to make a variety of works, as figurative, abstract, realistic or refined graphics.
    • LEGZ

      Legz “The Spaghettist” is the product of Europe’s industrial decline. With his back turned to New York’s old school graffiti rules, he has roamed Paris and its suburbs, looking for these sleeping colossuses, as they were patiently for him to start their final life cycle. From vandal, he morphed into an explorer, a modern times archeologist and active member of a secret playgrounds to the rest of the world, The Spaghettist and a few other pioneers were at the forefront of this rusted gold fever, traveling light yeats away from the history of art freely, just for the sake of it. Legz also runs his patterns on paper, canvas and other surfaces. Experimenting compositions, colors, materials, and visual appearances, faithful to his unique graphism.
    • ILK

      Ilk is born, lives and works in a forest in 93 district, the dark zone of Paris suburbs, France. He discovers black metal and horror movies at 10, begins to develop his film cameras in the lab at 11, sink in Magic cards and Warhammer at 12, begins graffiti in 1998. With this eclecticism, he graduated in Fine Arts in 2002. After that, he started to work for Disney packagings. Since 2006, he works for various brands and creative agencies as a freelance digital graphic designer and art director mainly in the field of music, luxury and fashion, which gives him a strong and rigorous understanding of customers.
      Ludovilk Myers “Ilk”‘s playful art scattered with funny shapes & colors is only a helping hand to sink into the depths of darkness of an organic and oppressive fantasy world.
      In parallel he develops a personal style in painting, illustration, graphic design, typography, and conducts many worldwide exhibitions and collaborations with brands.
    • POES

      Poes lives and works between Lyon, Paris, Marrakech and Berlin. He began tagging in 1998, when he was in highschool.
      Over the past ten years he has developed his own style, first by working on letters, combining the influences of conventional tags and flops in New York with the “euro-rail” style of the years 2000.
      Influenced by comics, he started painting characters next to his letters. He draws inspiration from the many trips he takes and from meeting many renowned graffiti artists. In 2001 he began to paint on canvas and the letters disappeared little by little from his work.

      This is what the artist says about his work:
      “In opposition with a morose time when fear counts more than dreams, I am trying to create something colorful, personal, dreamlike, sometimes surreal and often funny”.
    • EYONE

      Before being street art's child, Eyone was vandalism's child. He was born in Paris in 1976, his favorite playing field is the Parisian metro. A graffiti artist with several "blazes", he is at the origin of the Vandal group, the (“ The Psycho Killers ”), their work is known worldwide, especially in the universe of graffiti.

      As the years have gone by, Eyone has found a new space for creation, as infinite as the urbane space: canvas. Indeed, he might abandon this medium sometimes for more unusual ones like vinyls, this is where he is able to express his uniqueness as an urban artist, through bright colors and abrupt strokes, at times hurried but also gentle and meticulous. This passing from street to the canvas took place by joining a New York artist's studio, SEEN, considered to be the godfather of graffiti, the artist obtained true recognition in the world of street art.
    • SCRED

      Born in 1984, Scred is a painter originally from the area of Paris. He comes from the world of graffiti, which he started practicing in 1998. Today, in parallel to his work on canvas and on paper, the artist still practices graffiti.
      During his illegal experiences, he explored different graphic universes. The artist particularly likes fallow places, always searching for places untouched by graffiti. Between 2007 and 2014, he left his mark, by illegally painting more than 150 trucks, but always taking care of leaving a licked signature, rich in colors. Passionate about typography, his style is characterized by his seach on the destructuring of letters, on a graphic and geometric backgroud.
      Scred is represented by a Parisian gallery. In parallel, he participates in several auctions in Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

    • YANN KEMPEN

      Yann Kempen is a French artist born in 1963 in Valenciennes. He studied at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Art of Valenciennes, where he obtained a DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique) in 1986.
      On the background, his works seem to have a common feature, his childhood memories. He does paintings of well known brands such as Michelin, La Vache qui Rit or Banania using logos of his time.

      He is interested as well in the myth of superheroes such as Hulk, Superman, Shadow and Wonderwoman which he depicts on a square canvas, not always represented from head to toe, with angles magnified on purpose to respect the format for the "bubbles" in cartoons and comics. During a trip to Japan, he was very influenced by the culture of Manga which is very famous in the country. He then did numerous portraits of women in a Manga style.
      On the form, the background of the canvas is deliberately botched to recall the poor quality of the paper of his original pieces which were a succes in the world of Manga. He likes to work the material to give his portraits more brightness. His paitings are done with acrylics patinated in numerous formats.

      Since 1992, he has exhibited his art in numerous exhibitions and galleries, specially in the northern region of Paris and England and more recently in Tour, St Etienne and in Verone, Italy.