Wild Style, 2023

by Sara Chelou

Painting : aerosol paint, acrylic 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

£1,340

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Unique work

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Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: aerosol paint, acrylic

Dimensions cm inch

39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Not framed


Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

This masterful work is taken from a photo of the official photographer of the beginnings of American graffiti, that is to say Martha Cooper. In this iconic photo, she was able to mark both the beginning of graffiti and hip-hop. The graffiti is illustrated here by the two aerosol cans of the historic Krylon brand, famous for their farandole of small colored dots, which are balanced on a double Ghetto Blaster. The young man who is no more than 14 years old, wears Adidas sneakers, as well as the clothes of his gang of the time.

Wild Style is both the title of a film and a book that illustrates the beginnings and the first graffiti works in the street in the 70s. On this work, the artist, Sara Chelou, by making a background as usual close to art brut, and, by adding this figurative and Iconic representation, has created a very strong contemporary work. With a multiplicity of typographies, resulting from the various letterings of what is called writing, that is to say the letters which are stylized by graffiti artists, we have here an evocation and a tribute to a style of art contemporary that was born in the street that has crossed the last 50 years to finally land on canvases and in museums.
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Sara Chelou, Wild Style
Sara Chelou

Sara Chelou

France  • 1972

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Sara Chelou is an active witness to the beginnings of street art in France. It was in the 90s, in Paris, that she began to paint outside the walls, as a committed artist in the underground world, in industrial cathedrals and libertarian wasteland.

She has a journey that is both plastic and experimental which questions the role of the artist in the city but also his place in society.

Being part of some of the first artistic experimental collectives, she participated in the creation of the first urban art events and the first European festivals on the same subject (as in Budapest in Hungary), then brought her art in abandoned industrial wastelands before moving into various Parisian studios.

For her way of painting in the city, she plays with references from American pop culture with Keith Haring, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and graffiti culture from everywhere. Sara Chelou also takes an engaged look at our time. Her urban poetry accompanies us and her messages slows down our steps.

From street art to contemporary art through pop art, she is an artist who participates in the current artistic renewal.

In her paintings she speaks of a graphic culture and a time when art is expressed and oscillates between the forbidden and the game, leaves the workshop to confront society in the streets and in the cities, reflects the world and its tensions with different influences, a form of fusion between citizen reflection, geek culture and graffiti.

His work is free, without borders.

Recognized today on the French and international artistic scene through numerous exhibitions and especially by international collectors, her paintings know no borders, her works are present on all continents and her colors and messages carry a salutary universality. Through her paintings, the adventure reaches your home.


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