Paris-born Zecky has been writing graffiti since he was a teen in the late 1980s and brings his spontaneous and switchable style catalog here to the Art Azoi walls in the 20th Arrondissement.
Out in broad daylight for this freeform color blast, Zeky has a long history of bringing his early writing skills to the contemporary canvas, distinguishing himself in areas of style and a sophisticated palette selection. Pushing his limits when reaching toward his heroes of New York Wildstyle, Zeky actually supersedes those limitations and has developed his own lingua franca.
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: 1. DREAMER: Jahmal Williams Life n Art and Skateboarding. 2. CASCADES: X L’Atlas x Emmaus x Art Azoi 3. CELSO via Tost Films
BSA Special Feature: DREAMER: Jahmal Williams Life n Art and Skateboarding
Improvisational, his work is like jazz that way. As a skater, he’s a musician. As an artist, he’s a composer.
DREAMER: Jahmal Williams Life n Art and Skateboarding.
CASCADES: X L’Atlas x Emmaus x Art Azoi
Completed half a dozen years ago, this kinetic work by L’ATLAS is emblematic of the lasting and ephemeral pictorial interventions that Art Azoï programs and produces. A twenty-storey building in rue de Ménilmontant becomes the vibrating geometric jam that shakes the neighborhood, thanks to the sharp and organic patterning L’ATLAS lays down the wall.
CELSO via Tost Films
Life breaks you into many pieces. It’s up to you to mortar them all back together to make a fine mosaic. Let Celso show you the way.
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening participants at Festival Asalto 2020: 1. MrFijodor, “Logo Al Rogo, MEMORY/OBLIVION” 2. Bunker Walls. Street art inside the cave. 3. Fabio Petani: Phosphorus Oxide & Narcissus 4. TANC at Pavillon Carre de Baudouin 5. Mary Wells 1944-2021 6. Chick Corea 1941-2021
BSA Special Feature: MrFijodor, “Logo Al Rogo”
For a project called with twelve artists called “Street Art Inside a Cave” in September 2020 in Bozen, Italy, graffiti writer / street artist / muralist MrFIJODOR worked on three walls creating a storied set of shadowy forms and symbols that he says tie the past with the present – in an unnerving way. He says the goal is to keep the memory of the atrocities of history alive, precisely to ensure that they never happen again.
From the project description “The wall is inspired by the theme ‘Memory and oblivion’: the one is a constant motion of the human mind, the other erases memories and consciences to start a ‘new cycle’ of reminiscences. But there are events that cannot be forgotten, such as the atrocities of the Second World War. The artwork blends art with history: the chromatic fidelity to the Nazi flag contrasts with the provocation of the piece: the swastika is made up of glasses, shoes, teeth, prosthesis of hands and feet, all those ‘personal objects’ of which the deportees were deprived to become what Primo Levi in ‘I sommersi e i salvati’ calls as “human material”. The work is also a sign of contemporaneity. Some speeches and attitudes of current sovereigns create and feed useless violence born from the manipulation of everyday life: symbols, concepts, promises and intentionally repeated gestures of which these ‘powerful’ make it their leitmotif to conquer and subjugate more or less indirectly peoples.”
MrFijodor, “Logo Al Rogo, MEMORY/OBLIVION”
The exhibition “Mythos. Ten impressions” is organized by Cooperativa Talia and MurArte Bolzano.
Bunker Walls. Street art inside the cave.
Fabio Petani: Phosphorus Oxide & Narcissus
Remember summer? Last August Fabio Patino painted this large scale mural for a private gig in in Chivasso, Italy. He calls it Phosphorus Oxide & Narcissus Pseudonarcissus.
TANC at Pavillon Carre de Baudouin
Paris artist TANC began in graffiti moved into abstraction, color washes and geometric illustration – and now enjoys a commercial/fine art career as well. Here with a project for L’association Art Azoï, he painted the exhibition wall at Pavillon Carre de Baudouin a colorscape to offset the grey of winter.
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