Photo Thias
O Clock Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Sowat
Legz Photo Silvio Magaglio
Hoctez Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Sebastien Preschoux photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Roti, Dran, Arnaud Liard, and Monsieur Qui photo by Nicolas Gzeley
photo Nicolas Gzeley
Phillipe Baudelocque Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Dran Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Nassyo Photo by Silvio Magaglio
Photo Silvio Magaglio
Photo Nicolas Gzeley
Skki Pic by Sowat
One of my favorite exhibitions last year was “Terrains Vagues’” at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. I was also able to get a private view of the exhibition during my trip to Paris, being able to witness the exhibition in person I was blown away not only by the project but where and how it was placed in the Museum. I was excited to hear that Lek, Sowat, and Hugo Vitrani the curator of the exhibition had invited a second group of artists to expand the initial project. Terrains Vagues part 2 of the exhibition will open to the public this Thursday.
Palais de Tokyo is a exhibition space for Modern and Contemporary art in Paris. A massive space with no permanent collection like other contemporary art institutions the Palais focuses on producing its own exhibitions. This aspect of the space relates well to Graffiti/Urban Art as most of Graffiti is temporary in nature and we ourselves have no permanent collection or need for one. In order to to recreate the real power of our artform in an institution, it would have to be created along similar circumstances to how and where we create our work. This exhibition does that and it is able to also be located in an art institution, something that you normally wouldn’t expect. What stands out about this exhibition is that is created in the back exits, back hallways, the never seen parts of the museum. Not having an exhibition on the main floor with other contemporary art, the Lasco project runs behind the scenes along the corridors that surround the Palais. The outsider aspect of our artform is directly involved in the location of the exhibition. It is an interesting concept where even when given the opportunity to be part of a prestigious institution the curators chose to keep their work hidden much like it is in real life. For this reason and the fact that the artists who were part of the project are all important figures in our artform, this is an important and historical event. I wouldn’t miss the opening if you have the chance you never know if it will be open to the public when you come. We also want to thank Silvio Magaglio, one of France’s most respected graffiti photographers , Nicolas Gzeley, who has followed the movement for years and worked on Paris’ local and influential magazines, and of course Thias and Sowat for photos as well.
GF
The Palais de Tokyo continues its commitment to the arts urban opening new spaces dedicated to graffiti and to Street art, at the instigation of Lek, Sowat and Hugo Vitrani.
FROM November 21, 2013
Lasco Project
Proposal from Lek & Sowat
Since September 2012, Lek and Sowat have seized from the bowels of the Palais de Tokyo in secondary spaces , inside out , places safe untapped between the street and the institution. Their minimalist architecture marked by time recalls the precarious places and devices borrowed by the graffiti : brownfields , deposits trains.
Opened in December 2012 and updated in November 2013 , this experimental wasteland presents group in the work in progress together fifty artists from the graffiti . Generations and different approaches
– Of those who develop their work in to the most radical of greenfield occur only on trains and subways – all operate within the constraints of their paintings environment . Creating a course in ambush plunged between light and darkness, Lek , Sowat , and Dem189 guests deconstructed space and lacerated architecture, imposing a black – blancrouge color code paintings recovered in the center inventories art . This monumental immersion wraps public in an area lit sharply neon . The confrontation with the painted walls so authoritarian reveals precious details , sometimes destroyed (but archived ), each artist who has made his course , his gestures , his history, his posture in a vaporous and fleeting composition where egos and styles overlap and collide . zone saturated paintings in which Larry Clark turn came in July 2013, several scenes of his film ” The Smell of Us .”
Curated by Hugo Vitrani
Guest Artists:
November 2013 : ALËXONE , PHILIPPE
BAUDELOCQUE , DRAN , HOCTEZ , JAY ONE KAN
LEGZ , SILVIO MAGAGLIO , NASSYO , O’CLOCK ,
SEBASTIEN Preschoux , ROTI , SKKI , and guests
surprises …
December 2012: ALËXONE , AZYLE , BABS , BOM.K ,
Cockney , DEM189 , DRAN , HONDA, HORFÉ , KATRE ,
LEK , OUTSIDER , RIZOTE , Sambre , SETH , SOWAT ,
SWIZ , VELVET, WXYZ , zoer )
And also: ALZO , BADHYPNOZ , BRUSK , BORE, BORIS
LARRY CLARK, Cyriak , DEMON , CBI Emoy ,
GOMER , GRIS1 , hobz , INE , JACE , JAW KÉBOY , KENO ,
Kence , MEKO , MR. THAT , NEXT, NIBOR REILUOS ,
MARTHA COOPER, OGRE , WAVE , PEAMS , RUSTY ,
SAEYO , Sinde , SIRIUS , SMOE , SODA, TCHEKO ,
Teurk , WO , XABY …
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