"Faites le mur" is the french title of "Exit through the gift shop", a 2010 movie by street artist Banksy. The movie makes an hommage to the french street artist Invader, supposed to be the cousin of its hero, a French immigrant in LA called Thierry Guetta. No wonder if this title inspired other street artists in France.
15 street artists were invited to decorate temporary walls, with the support of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie, of the group Poste, the building enterprise Darver... The event was organised by the collaborative gallery Studio411, and lasted 2 days (June 27&28): everyone could watch the artists at work, take a rest, listen to music, buy some works. Many photos and videos now on facebook: there are plenty amateurs. Duke & Dude, Sarah Valensi...
The place of the Poste Rondelet already had taken some colors. Fresco by MIST:
Zoulette and Sunny Jim: the little white and black girls are her specialty, the young people with a blanck face are his.
"Zoulette" (slang): girl who loves hip-hop.
"Sunny Jim": name without meaning in french and in France... It seems that Jolyon Wagg/Séraphin Lampion pretends, in the english version of "Tintin et les Picarros", that a man called Sunny Jim designed the costumes for the carnival. Hergé certainly used another name in the original version, and JW/SL refers to himself, so let's say that Sunny Jim (street artist) refers to Séraphin Lampion, or at least to Hergé... or the round face of Tintin. I would have thought about some more recent and obvious references, like "Face de Lune" (Boucq-Jodorowski), Jean de la Lune (Ungerer). If it came though Séraphin, then there might be a reference to Anonymous. I would be a bit disappointed; I supported the israeli hacking of anonymous website, and I am sorry Guy Fawkes got such a poor descendance.
The name "Sunny Jim" is more probably a modern version of "Sonny". The street artist, however, isn't a version of anyone. He studied at the ESBAMA Fine Arts school (2009-2012) and prepared a master of Arts at Paul-Valery faculty (2012-2014). His blank-faced people in the streets question pedestrians and drivers. One can't ignore them. One just wonders if they are reflections or visitors, acting or dreaming, and one has to move off from oneself to think about it. Sunny Jim is doing well.
Oups painted some rocks in Port Marianne as cute colored beetles... He painted here a city with nuclear plant and flying hearts.
Sunra - with the key on his arm, he seems to be more influenced by Herman Poole Blount than by the egyptian pre-muslim cosmogony...
The "semeuse" (Mariane, a symbol of France, sowing seeds on ancient coins (before the euro, there was the franc) an stamps) appears. She's now sowing hearts, and her hair draws what looks like an arabic calligraphy. This interesting humanity lover, who seems pregnant on the work-in-progress, reduces the sun/Ra to a christian glory. Dead to Copernic (sorry Nicolas I don't mean it)!
Rosalinda Pesce, or Charlotte Ragot, 15 years old, model of the painter Oscar Roty for his Semeuse:
The semeuse looked left for Roty, right for the Larousse dictionnary. Same on the 100 € gold coins produced in 2008, 2009 and 2010... and on our fresco.
Rays didn't chose an anglicism as a pseudo: the word 'ray' comes from the ancient french.
Cleps is quite an original name.
It reminds 'clebs', a slang outrageous word for "dog", from the arabic word "klebs", dogs. It gave "clébard" in french. Muslims also use it for Jews, Christians, Atheists, agnostics, etc. Cleps might have rather chosen the name of the clepsydra (water clock, water stealer in greek)... If there are japaneese references, I didn't decode them.
Is a cat on a wall a necessarily reference to Chris Marker, the Cheshire Kurozawa? I would love it.
Hommage to Chris Marker: M. Chat at Vitry-sur-Seine.
Stew:
Romain Froquet:
I didn't picture the face with keffiyeh. It seemed to me like bad taste, when 3 teenagers kidnapped by palestinian terrorists were found dead. Impossible to appreciate Rays'skills on it. If you wonder why... why did he have to paint it?
Blue bird... Some walls were turnt into fresh frescos. Here is Pablito Zago:
These deep, moving paintings remind me a lot of Georges Mathieu... They are signed by Stéphane Carricondo.
George Mathieu, 1958:
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