Contemporary art and local tradition: when art invades the walls and streets of the world city, we get WALL DRAWINGS Icônes urbaines.
“Globe Painter” Julien Malland alias Seth invites 10 artists that he has worked with all over the world: Charley Case (Belgium), Jaz (Argentina), Kid Kréol & Boogie (Réunion), Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope (Israel), Reko Rennie (Australia), Saner (Mexico), Teck (Ukraine), Elliot Tupac (Peru) and Wenna (China).
An alternative history in which Wall Drawing becomes urban icon!
Curators: Julien Malland and Hervé Perdriolle
After a 9-month journey around the world in 2003, Julien Malland alias Seth printed the book Globe-Painter (awarded the jury’s special prize at the Travel Book Festival, Clermont-Ferrand 2007) and also made a series of programs for Canal+ (Les nouveaux explorateurs).
For many years, art critic, collector, gallerist and exhibition curator Hervé Perdriolle has presented works blending the traditional and the contemporary, particularly works from the Indian sub-continent, in which he is a renowned specialist.
With the support of Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
The artists
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Nom de l'artisteCHARLEY CASE
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Nom de l'artisteJAZ
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Nom de l'artisteKID KRÉOL & BOOGIE
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Nom de l'artisteKNOW HOPE
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Nom de l'artisteREKO RENNIE
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Nom de l'artisteSANER
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Nom de l'artisteSETH
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Nom de l'artisteELLIOT TUPAC
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Nom de l'artisteTECK
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Nom de l'artisteWENNA
Born 1969 in Brussels (Belgium) where he lives and works.
Drawer, illustrator, photographer and fi lmmaker, Charley Case is an adventurous and versatile
artist. His work is so original that he is impossible to pigeonhole in any particular contemporary
movement.
Born 1981 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Lives and works in Barcelona (Spain).
Franco Fasoli picked up the nickname JAZZ from his BMXand skateboard friends in the 1990s.
He knocked off the second Z and became JAZ.
Born in 1983 and 1984 in Saint-Denis, La Réunion (France), where they live and work.
Yanis Nanguet and Jean-Sébastien Clain met at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Denis (La Réunion)
and created the duo Kid Kréol & Boogie.
Born 1986 in the USA, lives and works in Tel Aviv (Israel).
Over the last ten years, Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope has developed an iconography and a visual language to translate situations observed in real life and document the idea of collective struggle. He positions his works in public space.
Born 1974 in Melbourne (Australia) where he lives and works.
Reko Rennie explores his aboriginal identity using contemporary media. He uses traditional geometric patterns which represent his community.
Born 1981 in Mexico City (Mexico) where he lives and works.
Edgar Flores alias SANER is an artist who has emerged from graffiti and street art. He is part of the revival of the muralist movement in Mexico. His masked characters are inspired by peasant carnival costumes and pre-Columbian rituals.
Born 1972 in Paris (France) where he lives and works.
Julien Malland adopted the alias Seth when he began painting on the walls of Paris in the mid-1990s,
when the graffiti movement was in full swing.
Born in Lima (Peru) where he lives and works.
Elliot Tupac is a Peruvian artist who practices the "chicha art," a rich aesthetic tradition of social
history. The "chicha posters" have emerged in the 80s, along with the popular "chicha music", a
combination of tropical and Andean rhythms.
Born 1987 in Lutsk (Ukraine). Lives and works in Lviv (Ukraine).
Teck’s principal inspiration is orthodox religious iconography he combined simplified religious symbols with geometrical shapes in order to achieve a contemporary abstract spiritual form.
Born 1981 in Beijing (China). Lives and works in Beijing and Jingdezhen (China).
Chen ‘Wenna’ Xingxing is a graduate of the Academy of Art and Design at Tsinghua University
(Beijing). She specialises in large-scale mural art, illustration, ceramics and sculpture.
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The story of this exhibition, its history and its narrative, are the story of Julien Malland, the astonishing traveller who, for years now, has been sharing walls, neighbourhoods, spray cans, actions and ideas with the rest of the planet and signing the work Seth. His career was to be the thread linking geographical places, artists, icons and images.
The intention of the exhibition is to bring territories together and break down barriers. It takes us to as many countries as there are artists: Belgium, Argentina, France and Réunion, Israel, Australia, Mexico, Ukraine, Peru, and China. It involves as many artists as there are images to be invented and works to be drawn.
Charley Case, Franco Fasoli / Jaz, Kid Kréol & Boogie, Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope, Reko Rennie, Saner, Teck, Elliot Tupac, and Wenna have all been invited to do their ‘inside-walls’ the way they do them ‘outside’, and to do them during the two weeks immediately before the exhibition opens. Incidentally, we will be leaving the door slightly ajar from 19 to 28 September in order to share the work in progress.
Their journey together is communal, a shared experience, a nimble-fingered, rational yet crazy blend of assorted techniques: draughtsmanship, bituminous paint, oil, tar, assembly, ready-made, tattoos, geometrical patterns, silkscreen printing, lettering, posters, collage, text, ‘pictures’, illustration, ceramics,… Basically it’s global!
