Swiz

France  • 1983

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Swiz is a French artist, born in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.
Swiz started out practicing graffiti, with a marked taste for urban no man's land. From the streets to the studio, he developed an emancipated and innovative work, focused on writting as a challenging basis for geometrical
compositions, in a « graffuturism » perpsective.
Self-taught artist, Swiz develops a passion for painting in his teenage years, when discovering graffiti, in 2000. The young teenager is already drawn to a vision of language combining the experiences of forms, colors and senses.
Inspired by the Cubist artists, and how they broke up objects and reassembled them in an abstracted form, Swiz adopts a deconstructed aesthetics in his graffiti, with a preference for complex, intricate design. The concept of encryption emerges, as the artist play with the viewer just as he plays on the shape of the letters and the outline of the urban areas that
he takes over.
From 2008, Swiz moves to a studio practice. He conserves some artistic aspects of graffiti, such as the letter and a genuine economy of means in the use of materials. Yet his artworks evolve towards abstraction. The letter tends to disappear, in favor of a language made of forms and colors, capable of conveying his words and thoughts. Taking inspiration from the Western cities' geometric design, which makes it easy for anybody to find one's way, Swiz always maintains a layout – whether derived from the alphabet or architecture, sometimes figurative and others times not. Thanks to this structure, the viewer is offered with the opportunity of wandering and uncovering new visuals horizons, where messages and emotions appear from the canvas, just like in a multi-faceted game.
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All artworks of Swiz
Painting, Surge 1, Swiz

Surge 1

Swiz

Painting - 90 x 126 x 3 cm

$5,127

Sculpture, Shaped Paintings #004, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #004

Swiz

Sculpture - 125 x 52 x 2.5 cm

$3,670

Painting, Here Together I, Swiz

Here Together I

Swiz

Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm

$4,517

Painting, Uniform Fonction, Swiz

Uniform Fonction

Swiz

Painting - 142 x 142 x 3 cm

$8,199

Painting, Potential drift, Swiz

Potential drift

Swiz

Painting - 97 x 146 x 3 cm

$6,211

Painting, Shaped Paintings #010, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #010

Swiz

Painting - 110 x 86 x 2.5 cm

$5,342

Painting, Shaped Paintings #003, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #003

Swiz

Painting - 100 x 62 x 2.5 cm

$3,501

Painting, Morpho, Swiz

Morpho

Swiz

Painting - 130 x 89 x 3 cm

$5,229

Painting, Shaped Paintings #001, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #001

Swiz

Painting - 83 x 38 x 2.5 cm

$1,784

Painting, Chrysalis, Swiz

Chrysalis

Swiz

Painting - 97 x 146 x 3 cm

$6,437

Painting, Underworld, Swiz

Underworld

Swiz

Painting - 101 x 78 x 3 cm

$3,614

Painting, Shaped paintings #018, Swiz

Shaped paintings #018

Swiz

Painting - 120 x 155 x 5.5 cm

$12,648

Painting, Broken circle theory, Swiz

Broken circle theory

Swiz

Painting - 166 x 226 x 3 cm

$15,246

Painting, Red digger, Swiz

Red digger

Swiz

Painting - 112 x 146 x 3 cm

$7,386

Painting, Shaped Paintings #017, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #017

Swiz

Painting - 107 x 132 x 5.5 cm

$9,599

Painting, Shaped Paintings #013, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #013

Swiz

Painting - 125 x 82 x 5.5 cm

$6,990

Painting, Somewhere Tomorrow, Swiz

Somewhere Tomorrow

Swiz

Painting - 160 x 160 x 3 cm

$10,401

Painting, Sharpcut, Swiz

Sharpcut

Swiz

Painting - 111 x 180 x 3 cm

$8,131

Painting, Shadow Substance, Swiz

Shadow Substance

Swiz

Painting - 133 x 98 x 3 cm

$5,884

Painting, Mental Reef, Swiz

Mental Reef

Swiz

Painting - 101 x 172 x 3 cm

$7,849

Sculpture, Shaped Paintings #014, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #014

Swiz

Sculpture - 88 x 139 x 5.5 cm

$8,300

Painting, Shaped Paintings #009, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #009

Swiz

Painting - 85 x 92 x 2.5 cm

$4,416

Painting, Shaped Paintings #007, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #007

Swiz

Painting - 107 x 70 x 2.5 cm

$4,229

Painting, Shaped Paintings #002, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #002

Swiz

Painting - 120 x 42 x 2.5 cm

$2,846

Painting, Shaped Paintings #016, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #016

Swiz

Painting - 92 x 140 x 5.5 cm

$8,752

Painting, Shaped Paintings #015, Swiz

Shaped Paintings #015

Swiz

Painting - 106 x 117 x 5.5 cm

$8,413

Painting, Transition, Swiz

Transition

Swiz

Painting - 81 x 162 x 3 cm

$5,929

Painting, Digitalis, Swiz

Digitalis

Swiz

Painting - 97 x 162 x 4 cm

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Painting, Imago, Swiz

Imago

Swiz

Painting - 114 x 162 x 5 cm

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Who is the artist?

Swiz is a French artist, born in 1983. He lives and works in Paris.Swiz started out practicing graffiti, with a marked taste for urban no man's land. From the streets to the studio, he developed an emancipated and innovative work, focused on writting as a challenging basis for geometricalcompositions, in a « graffuturism » perpsective.Self-taught artist, Swiz develops a passion for painting in his teenage years, when discovering graffiti, in 2000. The young teenager is already drawn to a vision of language combining the experiences of forms, colors and senses.Inspired by the Cubist artists, and how they broke up objects and reassembled them in an abstracted form, Swiz adopts a deconstructed aesthetics in his graffiti, with a preference for complex, intricate design. The concept of encryption emerges, as the artist play with the viewer just as he plays on the shape of the letters and the outline of the urban areas thathe takes over.From 2008, Swiz moves to a studio practice. He conserves some artistic aspects of graffiti, such as the letter and a genuine economy of means in the use of materials. Yet his artworks evolve towards abstraction. The letter tends to disappear, in favor of a language made of forms and colors, capable of conveying his words and thoughts. Taking inspiration from the Western cities' geometric design, which makes it easy for anybody to find one's way, Swiz always maintains a layout – whether derived from the alphabet or architecture, sometimes figurative and others times not. Thanks to this structure, the viewer is offered with the opportunity of wandering and uncovering new visuals horizons, where messages and emotions appear from the canvas, just like in a multi-faceted game.

What are their 3 main works?

What is Swiz’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Colorful Geometric Painters

When was Swiz born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1983