Graffiti Group Show

WK Interact, Pax Paloscia, Dan Witz, Crash

April 1st - May 22nd 2009

ADDICT gallery proposes a collective exhibition gathering 4 international artists stemming from the world of the graffiti. These artists, of different generations, work in different universes. All inescapable of the scene of Street Art, they are represented by the gallery since its beginnings and finally recognized by institutions.

 

Wk Interact

French artist of the street art internationally recognized and living in New York, he spreads a very strong energy in his paintings. He works on the movement and the speed. In black and white, his paintings look like human tornados which would have left the tracks of their passage on walls, with a certain reserved violence.

 

Pax Paloscia

Coming from Roma, she offers us in her paintings a metaphor of her feelings felt in front of cynicism of the world of the adults. Young artist influenced by the art of street, Pax invites us to share her vision of the childhood, eternal and invincible.

 

Dan Witz

Recognized since the 80s for his paintings on the walls of New York worked with oil, he pursues the night-atmospheres in his works on which he bottoms as a bird of prey. On one side, his oils on canvas with purified lines offer us a felted and quiet vision of the suburb but in which any soul is present. On the other one, with his series of "Mosh Pit", his troops of people or animals which, by their profusion, seem dehumanized.

The gallery ADDICT proposes, from May 23 until July 4th 2009 a personal exhibition of Dan Witz which will present the various facets of his work with new canvas, between absence and presence, by negotiating ceaselessly with the human being.

 

Crash

John Crash Matos says "Crash", pioneer of the Aerosol ® evolution, recover the New York subways since the age of 13. He transposes his works on canvas from the end of the 70s, by continuing to use the spraypaint as working tool. His paintings, inspired by the Pop Art, are nowadays in the most prestigious collections: those of the MOMA in New York, the Brooklin Museum of art, the Groninger Museum or the Stedelijk in Amsterdam.

Besides, this artist is represented in the exhibition T.A.G at the Grand Palais (in Paris), from March 27th till April 26th, among 150 international graffiti-artists.

Also, the Cartier foundation advances the scale of this artistic movement through an exhibition which has for ambition to make discover to the public the major figures of the current street art (from July till December, 2009).

These events show the craze of institutions for the graffiti and the recognition of these artists, stemming from the street art and supported by the gallery ADDICT, on the current artistic scene.