Tintin — artwork #5567 by A2 · Paris, France

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. …

COMBO, or COMBO Culture Kidnapper, is an artist based in Paris. His work is mainly focused around hijacking pop culture. He manipulates symbols known by everyone into which he mashup with other elements - most often from the world of comics or video games - which radically change their meaning. His obsession: interaction. The choice of the street and visuals that are understand…