Parisian OG Lek has been working on the streets for the last three of his five decades, growing up close to the Mecca of European graffiti in the 1980s, Stalingrad. By the 90s he was ready to experiment with abstract and futuristic, with a balancing influence from the rigid uncompromising Bauhaus. Today he easily contemplates the illegal and legal, commissioned and commercial, and his compositions are not always easily categorized as graffiti, street art, or mural.
But he is easily called a pioneer among peers, having been one half of Lek and Sowat, as well as a member of Da Mental Vaporz, French Kiss, LCA, GNS, RAW, and 1984. Here we present a brand new gig he scored with Art Azoï last month in his hometown.
Other Articles You May Like from BSA:
Neon Saltwater Imagines a 1990 Oasis In Las Vegas
Neon Saltwater has that star-washed, sun-kissed aura about her visage and throughout her public/digital space installations. You remember 1990, don’t you? Ex-CIA chief George Bush was president, Sine...
Neon Saltwater has that star-washed, sun-kissed aura about her visage and throughout her public/digital space installations. You remember 1990, don’t you? Ex-CIA chief George Bush was president, Sine...
Tarek Benaoum and "Freedom from the Known" on a Parisian Wall for Art Azoï
Calligraphist and decorative painter Tarek Benaoum has Algeria, Italy, and French in his blood, but it's all gold when he writes across walls. A graffiti writer who studied script formally in his ear...
Calligraphist and decorative painter Tarek Benaoum has Algeria, Italy, and French in his blood, but it's all gold when he writes across walls. A graffiti writer who studied script formally in his ear...
Jerkface: "Saturday Mornings" Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Repeated
“We all draw from memory,” says Futura 2000 in the introduction, “and default to past experiences, finding associations to the various cast of characters. In some cases the faces have been changed to ...
“We all draw from memory,” says Futura 2000 in the introduction, “and default to past experiences, finding associations to the various cast of characters. In some cases the faces have been changed to ...
"Titanes" at Work; New Murals and Social Inclusion in Don Quixote's Land
“Every man is the son of his own works” ~ Miguel de Cervantes. The greatest writer in the Spanish language was inspired by the character of this region and its arid but fertile elevated ...
“Every man is the son of his own works” ~ Miguel de Cervantes. The greatest writer in the Spanish language was inspired by the character of this region and its arid but fertile elevated ...
Mantra Flying in Wynwood, Part Deux
Rising above the sticky spray-painted chaos on the first story level of nearly everything else here in Wynwood, you’ll walk by and gaze upward at the newly finished panels of scientifically accurate ...
Rising above the sticky spray-painted chaos on the first story level of nearly everything else here in Wynwood, you’ll walk by and gaze upward at the newly finished panels of scientifically accurate ...