Tarek X Mat Elbé

Tarek and Mat Elbé met in Damascus, Syria while performing their military service cooperation. 1996 is the year of their meeting and 2014, is the year of their first artistic collaboration!

Back in France, Mat Elbé joined the team of the magazine "Paris Tonkar" directed by Tarek, the editor-in-chief. He got to know Yarps and other stencil artists who made him want to go to the other side of the mirror. Tarek, who had been painting since he was 14, offered him to paint canvases with four hands on themes they both appreciate: pop culture and New York... They have traveled many times to Montreal and New York. York: they launched the From Gotham project, an artistic project around exhibitions, publications, muralism, street art, and live painting on the theme of New York...