PA_857, Space Invader on Place du Calvaire — artwork #5537 by Invader · Paris, France
sticker / paste-up mosaïque mosaic pixel-art video-game Invader Paris space-invader
Artists
Born in 1969, Invader is a French urban artist and graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Calling himself a "ULA" (Unidentified Living Artist), he began embedding ceramic tile mosaics inspired by the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders into city walls in 1996, driven by the desire to make art accessible beyond galleries and museums. After officially launching his "invasion" project in Paris i…
A2 is an anonymous French urban artist active in Paris. His pseudonym stands for "A squared" - "Amour et Anarchie" (Love and Anarchy) - the twin forces he places at the heart of his practice. A tagger since his teens, he turned to street art around 2010 and in 2011 adopted the persona of Louise Michel, the iconic figure of the Paris Commune, whom he depicts sporting a punk mohawk. His first major …
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. …
From Tourcoing and active in urban art since 2008, Mister P settled on a single figure: General de Gaulle, born in Lille, whom he shows aged and wearing his kepi. The motif returns from one wall to the next, worked as paste-up, as stencil and as hijacked advertising poster. The pseudonym comes from a practical constraint: the letter P is quick to draw on a wall, which matters when you come from g…
Hunter
Added 18/02/2022
A white alien in a green and blue frame. Dated April 29, 2010, the mosaic is worth 30 points to hunters, and the wall still carries it.
The artwork PA_857, Space Invader on Place du Calvaire is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 1 Pl. du Tertre, 75018 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: mosaïque, mosaic, pixel-art, video-game, Invader, Paris, space-invader.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Invader, A2, Gzup, Mister P
The photo was published on 18-02-2022 by an unknown hunter.
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