Profile of the artist Heta One

Hetaone, whose real name is Sylvain Chaix, is a contemporary French graffiti-artist based in Lyon, who places experimentation with the unknown at the heart of his artistic activity. Beyond his undeniable talent, he is a polymorphic artist and globetrotter who adapts to all situations, genres, places, styles. He develops, in his image, a real original and universal plastic language that plays with the codes of street-art.

Mixing techniques, supports and colors, his almost 30 years of experience in painting and graffiti opens unexpected doors: He travels over the 5 continents, spray can in hand, brushes in the pocket, in order to make live his art in the 4 corners of the world and to share his creativity and vision with the local populations.

Coming from urban cultures and hip-hop, his works, mostly murals, are above all real artistic performances, sometimes gigantic, in inaccessible or even incongruous places: disused factories, the Berlin Wall, railway tunnels, radioactive waste landfill…