Wenn ich so weiter mache werde ich übermorgen schon übermüde, 2011
Thierry Noir   Famous Artists

Painting : acrylic · 60 x 50 x 2.54 cm 23.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch · Ready to hang

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Notes: Hand Signed, titled, dated  and inscribed on the overlap. Condition report Available upon request. Gallery COA Included.
About:  Thierry Noir was born in 1958 in Lyon, France, and came to Berlin in January 1982. In April 1984, Noir began to paint the Berlin Wall and is credited as being the first artist to do so.  Noir's objective was to perform one real revolutionary act: To paint the Berlin wall, to transform it, to make it ridiculous, and to help destroy it pre-empting its ultimate fall in 1989. Noir covered the Berlin Wall, more than 3 metres high, with bright, vivid colors, aiming not to embellish the wall but to demystify it. Noir's iconic, bright and seemingly innocent works painted on this deadly border symbolized a sole act of defiance and a lone voice of freedom.

Painting on the wall was absolutely forbidden; it was built 3 metres beyond the official border so the east-German soldiers were able to arrest any person standing near it. Noir had to paint as quickly as possible, using the recipe of 'two ideas, three colors' as a celebration of the 'eternal youth'. Despite their bright colors and playful nature, the murals left a lingering sense of melancholy: As Noir says, “I did nothing but react to its sadness".

Since the 1980s, Noir's exploits and highly distinctive visual language have become world famous and immortalized in popular culture such as Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire and the cover of U2's album Acthung Baby. 

Noir's practice has a strong emphasis on line and aims to simplify forms to their most basic elements. This simplicity reflected the necessity of painting quickly outdoors in a hazardous environment with very real risks to his personal safety. Noir reacted to his environment and his monsters are a metaphor for the Wall itself, each one relating to his experiences or feelings of what he calls a 'killing machine'.

Thierry Noir, Wenn ich so weiter mache werde ich übermorgen schon übermüde

Thierry Noir

France  • 1958

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Thierry Noir is a French contemporary artist, painter, street artist, and pioneer of European graffiti, born in 1958 in Lyon. He is internationally recognized as one of the first artists to have repeatedly painted on the Berlin Wall, transforming this symbol of the Cold War into a huge support for artistic expression. Arriving in West Berlin in 1982, he settles in a squat located in the immediate vicinity of the Wall. Faced with this omnipresent border, he decided from 1984 to intervene directly on the concrete, almost daily creating brightly colored paintings despite the risks associated with the surveillance of the border guards of the German Democratic Republic. This spontaneous and committed approach marks a decisive turning point in the history of street art and urban art.

Thierry Noir's plastic language is immediately recognizable through his famous faces with elongated profiles, thick black outlines, bold colors, and deliberately simplified shapes. Originally designed to be executed quickly to avoid official checks, these figures became his artistic signature. Influenced by comicsPop Art, expressionism, punk culture, New Wave music, and the energy of the Berlin underground scene of the 1980s, he develops a direct, accessible, and universal aesthetic, where the spontaneity of the gesture takes precedence over the search for detail.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Thierry Noir continued his work in the studio and on monumental walls around the world. He creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and numerous murals, while maintaining his emblematic graphic vocabulary. His work questions themes of freedom, borders, memory, reunification, identity, and the appropriation of public space. Several original fragments of the Wall painted by the artist are today preserved in museums and public collections, notably at the East Side Gallery in Berlin, one of the most important open-air art galleries in the world.

Thierry Noir's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and several other countries. His works have been presented at the East Side Gallery, the Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, the Howard Griffin Gallery in London, as well as at international fairs and galleries dedicated to contemporary art and street art. He has also collaborated with major artists such as Keith Haring and Kiddy Citny, contributing to making the Berlin Wall a universal symbol of freedom and creation. An essential figure in contemporary urban art, Thierry Noir holds a major place in the history of graffiti, street art, contemporary painting, and public art, his work remaining inseparable from the history of the Berlin Wall and the artistic transformation of urban space.

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