Blue Octopus and Star, A2 Duo — artwork #5919 by A2 · Paris, France
sticking octopus pieuvre bleu sticker A2 minimalist
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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 23/11/2022
Two minimalist paste-ups by artist A2 on a Parisian wall: a round blue octopus and a small geometric grey star. These simple shapes, characteristic of the artist's work, play with line simplicity and contrast in urban space.
The artwork Pieuvre bleue et étoile, duo A2 is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 47 Rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: octopus, pieuvre, bleu, sticker, A2, minimalist.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: A2, Gzup
The photo was published on 23-11-2022 by Rabot.
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