A2 Stickers on Rue des Mauvais Garçons — artwork #6584 by A2 · Paris, France
sticking pieuvre personnage sticker A2
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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 16/03/2023
Three stickers by artist A2 are stacked on a corner of Rue des Mauvais Garçons in the 4th arrondissement: a mischievous brown octopus, a character face, and a small green creature at the bottom. This accumulation characterizes the artist's practice of discreetly marking Parisian streets. The street name adds a touch of irony to these mischievous characters.
The artwork Stickers A2 rue des Mauvais Garçons is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: 6 Rue du Bourg Tibourg, 75004 Paris, France.
This sticking is also tagged as: pieuvre, personnage, sticker, A2.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: A2, Gzup
The photo was published on 16-03-2023 by Rabot.
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