Artists
Morèje, born Jérôme Gulon in Paris in 1957, is a visual artist who became the first to bring mosaic into the field of street art. Trained in the medium by Riccardo Licata at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, he began placing his first mosaic pieces in the streets of Paris in 1988, exploring themes of time, repetition and fragmentation through an ancient craft reimagined for the urban …
Hunter
Added 02/06/2019
Moreje embeds in a Paris wall a portrait of a mustachioed bourgeois man with a bow tie on a light pink background, framed by a border of red and gold tesserae. A small box below the portrait completes this installation that resembles a commemorative stele or urban ex-voto, between homage and readymade.
The artwork Morèje is of type mosaic. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 27 Rue du Sentier, 75002 Paris, France.
This mosaic is also tagged as: portrait, naïf.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Morèje
The photo was published on 02-06-2019 by Castriaypidi.
This page has been viewed 20 times.
More street art in Paris
Paris has 861 street artworks documented on street-artwork.com. Browse graffitis, murals and stickers spotted in this city.
See all artworks in Paris