Part of Lasco Project.

Mercredi, samedi et dimanche à 12h30 (30 minutes de visite).

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In September 2012, Lek & Sowat took over the entrails of the Palais de Tokyo: support spaces not intended to accommodate exhibitions, a middle ground between the street and the institution. The minimalist architecture of these spaces, bearing the traces of the passage of time, recalls the precarious, peripheral spaces haunted by graffiti artists: industrial wastelands, train depots.

Inaugurated in December 2012 and updated in November 2013, this experimental space constitutes a collective work-in-progress, regrouping fifty graffiti artists from different generations and fields of practice, from those who develop their work in empty spaces to the more radical who work only on trains and subways. They come together to explore the constraints of the environment in their work.

Creating an ambush bathed alternately in light and darkness, Lek, Sowat, Dem189 and their guests have deconstructed space and lacerated the building’s architecture. For this monumental installation, which immerses the audience in brutal neon lighting, they imposed a palette of black, white and red (the colors of the paints they found in the art center’s storage room). An examination of these authoritatively painted walls reveals precious details, occasionally destroyed (but always archived), as each artist has contributed his trace, his gesture, his history, his posture to this vaporous, furtive composition in which egos and styles overlap and clash. A zone saturated with painting, in which Larry Clark shot several scenes of his film “The Smell of Us” in July 2013.

Associated artists :

– 1st session : ALËXONE, AZYLE, BABS, BOM.K, COKNEY, DEM189, DRAN, HONDA, HORFÉ, KATRE, LEK, OUTSIDER, RIZOTE, SAMBRE, SETH, SOWAT, SWIZ, VELVET, WXYZ, ZOER

– 2nd session : ALËXONE, PHILIPPE BAUDELOCQUE, DRAN, HOCTEZ, JAY ONE, KAN, LEGZ , SILVIO MAGAGLIO, NASSYO, O’CLOCK, SEBASTIEN PRESCHOUX, ROTI, SKKI, BLO, POPAY et des invités surprises…

And also : ALZO, BADHYPNOZ, BRUSK, BORE, BORIS, LARRY CLARK, CYRIAK, DEMON, DRAS, EMOY, GOMER, GRIS1, HOBZ, INÉ, JACE, JAW, KÉBOY, KENO, KENCE, MEKO, MR. QUI, NEXT, NIBOR REILUOS, MARTHA COOPER, OGRE, ONDE, PEAMS, RUSTY, SAEYO, SINDÉ, SIRIUS, SMOE, SODA, TCHEKO, TEURK,WO, XABY…

 

Curator: Hugo Vitrani