Cluster of Paste-ups on the Passage Wall — artwork #5728 by A2 · Paris, France
sticker / paste-up oiseau pieuvre noir-et-blanc sticker collage orange
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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. …
Originally from Caen in Normandy, the artist began doing graffiti in 1989 and spent a decade painting across European cities. He also pursued university studies in history and geography, driven by a desire to travel and explore other cultures. During a first trip to Mexico in 1998, he encountered Quetzalcóatl, the feathered serpent of pre-Columbian mythology - a figure that became the emblem of hi…
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…
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Added 30/06/2022
Several cut-out paste-ups are spread across a rough render wall: a pink and blue creature with big ears, an orange one-eyed octopus, a green panel where a dripping white bird stands, and two torn white collages.
The artwork Cluster of Paste-ups on the Passage Wall is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 4 Pass. Boiton, 75013 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: oiseau, pieuvre, noir-et-blanc, sticker, collage, orange.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: A2, Gzup, Oré, Mister P
The photo was published on 30-06-2022 by an unknown hunter.
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