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| Rats, Paris early 80's |
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| Self Portrait, Paris 1986 |
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| No More War, Berlin 2003 |
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| David, New York 2006 |
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| Blek Le Rat Wheatpasting in New York 2006 |
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| Homeless Sleeping Bag, Paris 2007 |
Banksy, Banksy everywhere....
Has everyone forgot about Blek Le Rat? Le Rat was stenciling the streets of Paris long before Banksy's work ever surfaced in London. Yet Blek Le Rat has never become American institution, he has never created the opening sequence for "The Simpson's" and Brad Pitt has never been photographed in attendance at one of his gallery exhibitions. Well he is French and there for a moment we were eating "Freedom Fries"? Yet at almost 60 years old he continues to create "street" art with no signs of slowing.
Interview selection from Format Magazine 2007:
FM: Why are they doing this?
BLR: “The graffiti movement,” he says, “has no other intention than to speak via pictures. Words for the community, words of love, words of hatred, of life and death.”
“It’s just a fine and subtle kind of therapy and an attempt to fill the emptiness of this terrible world, to cover public space with pictures that people going to work can enjoy.”
The Man Who Gave Birth to Banksy
20 Questions with Blek Le Rat
http://bleklerat.free.fr/
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