Description
The artist removed commercial posters from Decaux billboards to replace them by black and white graphic posters instead and thus creating spaces without advertisting, questioning its importance in public space.
Action
Bien Urbain 7
1 month : From 20th may to 17th June 2017
Place : mobile
Associate artist : OX (FR)
13 guest artists : Alias Ipin (FR), Bla+ (FR), Ekta (SWE), Ericailcane (IT), ESPO Stephen Powers (US), Sasha Kurmaz (UA), Jordan Seiler (US), Diana Sirianni (IT), Cie Spina (IT), LN Surfil (FR), OX (FR), Olivier Toulemonde (FR), The Wa (FR)
Biography
The artivist term could have been invented for him : from New York, this anti-ad activist develops a radical graphic practice, creates tools to counter physical or digital advertising, animates international and local networks and advocates public spaces free of commercial imaging.
Photo Credits
Élisa Murcia-Artengo