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A2 is an anonymous French urban artist active in Paris. His pseudonym stands for "A squared" — "Amour et Anarchie" (Love and Anarchy) — the twin forces he places at the heart of his practice. A tagger since his teens, he turned to street art around 2010 and in 2011 adopted the persona of Louise Michel, the iconic figure of the Paris Commune, whom he depicts sporting a punk mohawk. His first major …
The artist started doing graffiti in the early 1990s before stepping away around 1996. In 2010, after visiting an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, he returned to the streets with a deliberate street art focus. His alias, pronounced "Djizeupe", is borrowed from Snoop Dogg's track "GZ Up, Hoes Down". He sees himself more as a vandal than an artist, valuing the illegal dimension of the practice. …
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Added 10/08/2021
Sticker composition blending portraiture with poetic elements, a signature of the Parisian collective.
The artwork A2 et la poésie urbaine is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 16 Rue Pastourelle, 75003 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: poétique, portrait, sticker, Paris.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: A2, Gzup
The photo was published on 10-08-2021 by Artparis.
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