{"id":1641,"date":"2009-06-01T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/graffiti-et-le-tag\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:21:37","slug":"graffiti-et-le-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/01\/graffiti-et-le-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti et Le Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Where Louis XIV Meets Crash and Blade<\/span><\/p>\n

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By MELENA RYZIK<\/p>\n

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The French call it le graf or le tag: the style of urban artwork that was born nearly four decades ago on New York City subways and brick walls, influencing a generation of artists, self-taught and otherwise, across the world.<\/p>\n

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Now twin sisters, gallery owners in France, have organized an exhibition to celebrate the international stamp and cultural heft of what they prefer to call le street art, a genre that may have more establishment appeal abroad than it does in the United States. The show, \u201cWhole in the Wall,\u201d is billed as the largest exhibition of American and European street art from 1970 to today, and includes paintings, sculpture and photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s youth, it\u2019s movement, it\u2019s lively,\u201d said Chantal Helenbeck, who with her twin, Brigitte, runs the Helenbeck Gallery in Paris, which held a similar show in November.<\/p>\n

Trailing parfum on a high-heeled tour of the installation before it opened on Thursday in a multistory studio space on Manhattan\u2019s far West Side, the sisters explained what drew them to street artists. \u201cThey\u2019ve changed my vision of my work,\u201d Chantal Helenbeck said, speaking in French, \u201cbecause they haven\u2019t gone to school. They are taught by life, and you can see that in their work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brigitte added, \u201cThey bring a joie de vivre to the gallery.\u201d With works by pioneering Bronx graffiti writers like Crash and Blade and their descendants, including Blek le Rat, a Parisian known for his stencil work, and the anonymous British artist Banksy, the show offers a diaspora that many Americans may not know existed. It\u2019s evolved far beyond early tagging (abstractly writing a name or word in spray paint or marker, usually illegally) to more painterly and figurative forms.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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