Biography
JEROME MESNAGER
Jérôme Mesnager entered the Boulle school in 1974, where he trained as a cabinetmaker and where he later taught. In 1979, he took comic strip classes with Yves Got and Georges Pichard, professors at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré.
He was one of the founders, in 1982, of Zig-Zag, a group of around ten very young artists who decided to occupy the street by drawing graffiti and, also, to briefly occupy, for the duration of an artistic performance, disused factories.
On January 16, 1983, he invented the Man in White, "a symbol of light, strength and peace." Jérôme Mesnager has reproduced this white silhouette throughout the world, from the walls of Paris to the Great Wall of China.
In 1990, Jérôme Mesnager left his childhood home, the place where he met Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch, the headquarters of his associations, and the studio where he had his first works, to move to the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He exhibited a series of palisades on the theme of combat at the Loft gallery, which published a catalogue.
In 1995, he created a large mural on rue de Ménilmontant, in the 20th arrondissement, “We are the guys from Ménilmontant".
Jérôme Mesnager often associates himself with Némo, whose favorite character is the black silhouette of a man in a raincoat wearing a hat. In this capacity, he accompanied the Parisian urban art movement (Blek le rat, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol, Némo, etc.) and the Figuration Libre in the early 1980s.
40 years of the White Corps in 2023.
LASVEGUIX
Guillaume Picart, known as Lasveguix, is a French artist from Seine-Saint-Denis, who began his artistic journey as a graffiti artist under the pseudonym Guix along the Canal de l'Ourcq, when he was a teenager. After a break from artistic creation, he reconnected with his passion in 2022 and is currently working on the creation of numerous works on various media, mainly inspired by pop art influence.
Lasveguix is directly inspired by Jacques Villeglé and Raymond Hains, and uses photographs of famous faces as well as torn posters to create his paintings. He then covers these supports with graffiti and paint projections, which gives life to colorful and powerful works, reminiscent of sections of urban walls torn from the street.
His artistic signature is based on his ability to give relief and volume to his paintings. He cultivates a real taste for the texture and material of torn paper, thus creating an impression of movement, by superimposing successive layers of paper.
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