At the end of the 60s, in New York, a place of acute Mad Menitude, a handful of young people start to write their names on the walls and transport of the city.
This movement, seen as a marginalized crime, was exported outside the United States and gradually became commonplace and a real urban landscape at the beginning of the 1980s.
At the end of the 80’s, graffiti becomes a conflict, on one side the practitioners and on the other the justice.
In France it is the click, the culture is implanted on bottom of Public Enemy » Fight The Power « , a young artist launches out, his name André, dandy not major declaring » I do not smoke, I do not drink, but I graff » (euh,… LOL).
His style, his own, he does nothing like the others, he draws with pink spray a now famous funny and light Mr. A which became his signature, then the international logo of the hip & hype.
Nowadays André is a recognized artist and friend of Les Justice!
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Until November 29, the Fondation Cartier offers an exhibition on this free art. Although more and more common, this time we are not offered a simple wall cover, but a universe with all the codes of graffiti, all its links with music, techniques, cultures, …
In a lively history starting from the appearance of the tag, and passing by the evolutions which led it to develop the street culture worldwide!