Picture courtesy of The Grifters

 

For the opening of their ‘Terrains Vagues’ show (Lasco project/Palais de Tokyo), Lek, Sowat and curator Hugo Vitrani asked André Saraiva to return to his graffiti roots and design a dream Graffiti Show Poster. The poster, part of his Dream Concert series, is any Graffiti enthusiast dream come true, uniting artists like Norman Mailer, Brassaï, Banksy, Bando and many more for ‘one night only’. The only difference with Andre’s modus operandi is that for the first time in his series, the date and location are real, meaning that their really is a Graffiti show with an impressive line up opening tonight at the palais de Tokyo. With the poster in hand, Lek, Sowat and Hugo Vitrani have managed to have it pasted in various Parisian historical Graffiti spots (Stalingrad, la Chapelle…) during the week end, without the knowledge of the Palais de Tokyo. Make sure to get there Early to witness an importand and historical night. Show opens tonight.

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All pictures courtesy of Hugo Vitrani, Nicolas Gzeley, Silvio Magaglio, and Sowat.

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 …

Information

PALACE OF TOKYO
13 , avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
+33 (0) 1 47 23 54 01
www.palaisdetokyo.com

Open every day except Tuesday (closed first
January and 1 May).
From noon to midnight .