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Gilbert Petit in Wonderland (Moissy-Cramayel, France)

Gilbert Petit in Wonderland (Moissy-Cramayel, France)

Feel like you are living on the other side of the looking glass? Yes, that is because your society is in the final collapse of this controlled demolition. No need to worry, though, Gilbert Petit has created an Alice in Wonderland theme for his newest mural to brighten your day.

Gilbert Petit. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Moissy-Cramayel, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

The Parisian artist brought his illustration style 2-D interpretation to Moissy-Cramayel just as summers’ warm rays still had their full strength, the evening begins to cool. With his own interpretation of the children’s tale by Lewis Carroll and published in 1865, you may even find it tempting to step through the glass, but you may likely fall down through a rabbit hole of nonsense and hysteria.

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

Gilbert Petit. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Moissy-Cramayel, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

The mural is part of this autumn’s 2020 Wall Street Art festival and we thank Galerie Mathgoth for sharing these photos with BSA readers.

Gilbert Petit. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Moissy-Cramayel, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
Gilbert Petit. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Moissy-Cramayel, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
Gilbert Petit. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Moissy-Cramayel, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
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SETH At La Cité des Enfants in France

SETH At La Cité des Enfants in France

Just this weekend SETH completed his mural at Urban Nation for our show opening this Friday “Martha Cooper : Taking Pictures” in Berlin. A busy street artist and muralist such as he usually has a wall to paint somewhere, so today we thought we’d show you what he had been up too earlier in the month in Grand Paris Sud.

SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)

Famous for his paintings of young children at play, dreamily lost in a world just adjacent to this one, he was appropriately painting in Grigny, also known as “La Cité des Enfants”.

Following other muralists like Case Maclaim, Alber and Jace, this is the latest wall for the 2020 edition of a private/public improvement project called Wall Street Art festival.

SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
SETH. “Il était une faille”. Wall Street Art of Grand Paris Sud 2020. Grigny, France. (photo © Galerie Mathgoth)
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Andrea “RAVO” Mattoni in Corbeil-Essonnes With da Vinci

Andrea “RAVO” Mattoni in Corbeil-Essonnes With da Vinci

Aerosol in pursuit of the “Masters” (Eurocentrically speaking) is a permutation of Street Art and the mural making tradition going back decades, including murals made directly by “Masters” (Latino-centrically speaking) like Rivera or, say, those of the Olmec civilization in the pre Hispanic period, for example. In the last decade Frenchman and Street Artist Julien de Casabianca has documented, printed, and wheatpasted large-scale reproductions from classical painting upon city walls as part of his “Outings Project” in multiple countries.

Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)

Today we see an Italian former graffiti writer who went to university to study fine arts in Milan take his aerosol spray technique to a wall in Corbeil-Essonnes, France (population 50,400). Painted as part of the ongoing “Wall Street Art Festival”, the new mural may inspire the next generation of artists here as well.

Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)

Andrea “RAVO” Mattoni sings praise to a slice of Mona Lisa on this school building as his reinterpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s original, which is much smaller, hanging in the Louvre Museum about an hour’s drive north of here. The 38 year old artist, who was born in Varese and comes from a family of artists, including his father and grandfather, decided to leave the painting as an in-process “unfinished” work that shows a grid pattern and da Vincis background color for educational purposes.

“It is a good teaching aid for the school’s teachers,” says the walls’ artistic director, the gallerist Gautier Jourdain, “which they now use to explain the process to their students.”

Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)

If Gautier had any doubts about Mattoni’s qualifications with the spraycan, he was likely persuaded by the artist’s Caravaggio reproduction on the side of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome two years ago. More recently, as part of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, the artist created 5 large paintings at the Château d’Amboise. So this is number 5.5 perhaps.

Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)
Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)
Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)
Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)
Andrea Ravo Mattoni. Wall Street Art Festival 2019 Corbeil-Essonnes, France. (photo © Galerie MathGoth)
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Jef Aérosol Creates Huge Fresco in Paris Sud for Wall Street Art Festival

Jef Aérosol Creates Huge Fresco in Paris Sud for Wall Street Art Festival

“He wanted to highlight youth, its beauty and diversity,” says Gautier Jordain about French stencil master Jef Aérosol for this new public mural he just completed in Evry, in the south of Paris.

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

One of his biggest frescoes to date, the rocker/Street Artist doesn’t usually include this much red in his compositions, aside from his signature red arrows placed alongside the figures in his portraits. The striking graphic nature of these bands of color pops a new wave into his work, creating a fresh look that somehow feels quite modern.

Part of this year’s Wall Street Art festival curated by Mathgoth Gallery in Paris, this new monumental work dedicates itself to the diverse nature of many of the city’s newest immigrant communities, something that many European nations have been faced with in recent years with new arrivals fleeing war-torn countries.

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

For some reason, we humans are tribal in our behaviors sometimes and we can have a hard time accepting new members of our tribes. As is a historical practice, we depend on the intuitive knowledge and talents of artists to help us make the transition to being more accepting of others and to possibly help us find the innate great qualities in each other.

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

“He portrayed children who are happy to live and to share with you,” Gautier, who curated the project with his partner Mathilde, “without question of skin color, origin or religion.”

“Un enfant, Ça écoute le merle Qui dépose ses perles Sur la portée du vent*,” a lyric from singer Jacques Brel provided the inspiration, Jef says, and he spent some days with local kids and families in the neighborhood to make sure that they know this mural is for them.

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Evry, France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)


* “A child, he takes your dream and turns it into a song.” (approximate translation)


 

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Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido Mediating the Streets With Abstract Color in Corbeil-Essonnes. France

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido Mediating the Streets With Abstract Color in Corbeil-Essonnes. France

A public/private mural campaign in the southern suburbs of Paris continues to bring international Street Artists to create works for the public space. While France continues to grapple with an increase of new immigrants, a rise in right wing sentiments and xenophobic attitudes toward populations that differ from the dominant culture, projects like this may help keep the peace and foster community.

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

The Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud continues with their mural program here with a fresco on the “Paul Langevin” school, named after the prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. Art duo Mina Hamada and Zosen Bandido live in Barcelona and braved the rains here during a week of painting 5 walls to create an abstract collection of “Spring Colour” in a rather spontaneous way.

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

“They were the best ambassadors for painting a wall in a popular neighborhood where people of different origins and religions live together,” says Gautier Jourdain, who curates the ongoing festival. In an atmosphere where tensions between cultures has hit some high points in recent years nationally and locally, the artists themselves hail from Japan and Argentina are quite familiar with some of the issues at hand here.

“That is also why we have chosen light, simplified forms,” say Hamada and Zosen in a joint statement. “We want to paint creations that speak to everyone’s heart, that are accessible to everyone and give joy.”

 

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

Mina Hamada & Zosen Bandido. “Spring Colour”. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Corbeil-Essonnes. France. (photo © Mathgoth Gallery)

 

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TwoOne Brings Great White Egret to Lieusant (Seine et Marne)

TwoOne Brings Great White Egret to Lieusant (Seine et Marne)

Japanese Street Artist/ Fine artist TWOONE is a man/beast. At least those are his favorite subjects to depict and merge, whether he is on a wall in a neglected building, or on film illuminated from behind, on a dripping illustration on a canvas, or spanning across an ambitious mural.

The Mid-80s millennial Hiroyasu Tsuri currently lives in Berlin, where he has done at least one huge wall and a solo show at Urban Spree, and he has created his realistic fantasy animals and people in his hometown of Yokohama, Brooklyn, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Perth, Djerba, Miami, Milan, and Bangkok, among other places.

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

Today we find him with Gallerie Mathgoth and the new 2018 edition of the Wall Street Art Festival, which is primarily sited in Grand Paris Sud. His tropical looking scene actually frames a locally sourced bird, the stately and elegant egret, which is not uncommon here in Lieusant (Seine et Marne) – a town which boast humans also, 13,000 of them. According to Łukasz Ławicki, the population of the great white egret in France is more than 5,000. Check out TWOONE’s unique approach to tagging this big bird. Our thanks to Gautier and the gallery for sharing these installation photos with BSA readers.

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

TWOONE for Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud. Lieusaint (Seine et Marne), France. (photo courtesy of MathGoth Galerie)

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