Pixel Heart and Street Paste-ups — artwork #4766 by Gzup · Paris, France
sticker / paste-up coeur pixel-art sticker Paris minimalist
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The artist started doing graffiti in the early 1990s before stepping away around 1996. In 2010, after visiting an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, he returned to the streets with a deliberate street art focus. His alias, pronounced "Djizeupe", is borrowed from Snoop Dogg's track "GZ Up, Hoes Down". He sees himself more as a vandal than an artist, valuing the illegal dimension of the practice. …
Coeur pixel has been putting up mosaic hearts since 2016, in Montreuil and then across Paris. The motif never changes: a grid of red and black tiles composing a pixelated heart, about the size of a hand, fixed at eye level on a wall, a corner or a door frame. The shape borrows from 1980s video game conventions, in which the heart served as a life gauge. Rendered in tile and placed in the street, …
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Added 20/02/2021
The corner of a Paris building dotted with small pieces: a red pixel heart on the left return, an orange character and a green diamond pasted up high, and three printed portraits at pavement height on the stripped render.
The artwork Pixel Heart and Street Paste-ups is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 147 Rue Saint-Martin, 75003 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: coeur, pixel-art, sticker, Paris, minimalist.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Gzup, Coeur pixel
The photo was published on 20-02-2021 by Artparis.
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