PA_528, Space Invader on Rue des Anglais — artwork #5979 by Invader · Paris, France
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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. …
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Added 04/01/2023
A mosaic set just above a zinc cornice: an invader in beige tiles topped with two orange and turquoise rows, several tiles now missing. The tag DEMOCRATE is sprayed in brown on the wall below.
The artwork PA_528, Space Invader on Rue des Anglais is of type mosaic. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: Rue des Anglais, Paris, France.
This mosaic is also tagged as: mosaïque, mosaic, pixel-art, Invader, Paris, space-invader.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Invader, A2, Gzup
The photo was published on 04-01-2023 by VinceBlaz.
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