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speedy graphito (france)

Speedy Graphito (1961), an avant-garde precursor and recognized as one of the pioneers of the French Street Art movement (contemporary urban art), has now established himself internationally as one of the major artists of his generation.

Since the early 1980s, just after the « Figuration Libre » movement, Speedy Graphito has left his mark with « Style Graphito » on the collective memory and walls of Paris, coloring them with his striking graphics. As prolific as he is inventive, SG uses all forms of expression (painting, sculpture, installation, photo, or video) to create a universal language through his work and over time, infused with the spirit of the times. Organized by themes, his exhibitions succeed one another, offering ever-new and surprising universes. Always evolving and reinventing himself, his trademark is a joyful and profound art, often characterized by bright colors, in which he playfully and ironically disrupts our systems of perception. In this approach, he does not hesitate to appropriate and divert all the imagery of popular culture, from superheroes to brands, thus conducting an almost systematic decoding of our collective unconscious. He then questions the norms and dictates of our Western cultural identity, overlaying a more poetic dimension onto the reality of our society.

 

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