Street Art Paris: Discover the City's Vibrant Murals

Adbusting | French street artist Ludo, who is also known as Nature’s Revenge and became famous by pasting paper artworks showing combinations of technology and organic live, recently started a new street art series called “Co-Branding” in Paris. Because of “brands use crappy ultra aesthetic images that no one understands to sell their stuff” (Ludo) he had the idea to create “Nature’s Revenge” posters for Chanel, Dior, Calvin Klein, H&M, and other brands and takeover some advertising light-boxes on the streets of the French capital. ...

Do you remember the much talked “Women Are Heroes” exhibition by famous photographer and street artist JR, which held last year at Île Saint-Louis in Paris? Today I found the corresponding time lapse video, which shows in a stunning way the development of the giant pasted images of African women on the walls along the Seine River. The video gives also an overview about the press reporting as well as the opinions by Parisian citizen. Of course, it also shows the painful process of buffing the leftover of the fleeting street art… ...

Next month, Italian stencil art crew Orticanoodles will have their first stencil art solo show in Paris, which is simply called “New Works”. Curated by Samantha Longhi, the show will present the new “The Hammer” series, which is about the destruction of our enjoyment of daily consumer goods… “Orticanoodles is a couple of artists who live and work in Milan in Italy and then draw their inspiration in both high and popular cultures. They cultivate a taste for Pop Art and Andy Warhol and for daily objects, but also for the classical tradition. ...

The last days I reorganized my street art photo archive in every free minute I had. After hours of copying and pasting photos from one directory into another, I found some nice shots from the streets of Paris, which were already gotten off my mind… Today I uploaded these street art photos, which show artworks by Space Invader, Miss Van, Bonom, Ludo and others as well as some details of nice graffities I had found, to my Flickr photo-stream. ...

As I told you one week ago, Belgian graffiti artists Roa started his exhibition in Paris! For those who could not be in Paris until February 28th, have been published some nice photos of Roa’s phantastic animal graffiti by my friend Vito! Each of the spray-painted artworks, which are popular worldwide, seems to be as detailed as possible. Roa come to his painting in different ways, either as abandoned places, town, or gallery, and develops more and more the effects of anamorphosis, also in a goal context. After distinguished journeys in the streets of New York, London, Berlin and Warsaw in 2009, Roa now takes possession of Paris. (press release) ...

Yesterday I got an e-mail by Samantha Longhi. She is the founder of “Stencil History X” and the author of the corresponding stencil art book and informed me about the upcoming exhibition by famous graffiti artist Roa in Paris! Roa’s urban art shows are very rare and this is his first solo exhibition in Paris. After distinguished journeys in the streets of New York, London, Berlin and Warsaw in 2009, he now takes possession of the French capital. ...

I was really flashed, when I saw the photos of Rero’s great new text-message artworks in an abandoned hospital somewhere in Paris yesterday on Ekosystem! Rero is a conceptual artist with a graffiti background, although the only similarity between graffiti and his artworks is that both can be seen on the streets. He calls his very minimalistic and simple style “Image Negation”, which is a reversion of the rules of classical illustration: ...

After time-lapse portraits of Tokyo & Yokohama, New York & Istanbul or London, I will show you some beautiful impressions of Paris today! Paris is one of the most romantic cities around the globe! Some days ago, I found a very nice time-lapse video collection which shows some of the most well-known places of the French capital. ...

First of all, I have to say sorry to all of you, who daily read my articles, for not posting in the last week, but the only two things I did in the last days, are sleeping and drinking tea. Yes, I have the flu, but it’s getting better and better… And now for something completely different - Do you know my friend Vito del Forte? He is a well known street art documentalist, who knows almost every interesting corner in Paris. ...

I love artworks, which are influenced by maps or the city itself. For this reason, I already wrote some articles about this part of contemporary art - remind the Manhattan Skyline Drawing by Stephen Wiltshire or the fantastic typographic lino-cut by Mark Andrew Webber. Today I will present another great example: Whether New York, Paris or London, American artist Karen O’Leary’s map cuts are amazing! She hand-cuts parts of original maps into paper and reveals in this way the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of some of the greatest cities in the world. ...