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Amour ! Before street-art, 2004
Bze Bzeland  

Photography : ink, paper, fine art print · 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm 13 x 19 x 0 inch

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This print is from the book "OVERGROUND, déroutants voyageurs", 2006, Bze & Tomski, Paris, Editions Alternatives.
"Photos of the road, the street, the margin and its people"
 
unique print from an analog photograph by Bze
Glossy paper.

The image captures a fragment of a street, a paved ground marked by a crack. In this tear, urban debris and cigarette butts accumulate. An attentive gaze then discovers a word written in ink: Love. 
The contrast is striking. The softness of the feeling opposes the harshness of the asphalt and the grayness of the landscape. The composition plays on the opposition between the circularity of a metal plate and the broken line of the ground. 
This photograph, dated 2004, explores the margins of the city. It transforms a banal detail into a reflection on the beauty hidden in everyday life. The graphic intervention brings a poetic dimension to this neglected space. 
It is a print of art on paper. The work is part of a precursor approach to street art, where the text becomes a plastic element in itself. The grain of the photo accentuates the raw aspect of the scene, while the fluidity of the writing brings a visual breath.

The tight framing focuses attention on this volatile human trace.

Street art

Graphic

Everyday life

Urban art

Calligraphy

Cigarettes

Love

Street photography

Grey

Bze Bzeland, Amour ! Before street-art

Bze Bzeland

France  • 1977
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Bze has been tagging since he was 12. He writes on his school table, his clothes, the walls and public transport in his environment.

In parallel with university studies in photography and cinema, Bze explored the underground corners of Europe with his film camera, hunting for the aesthetics of the road, the street, the margins and its people. Since 1999, through exhibitions and slideshows between Granada and Rotterdam, he has shared his thousands of slides. In 2006, Bze finalized his photographic journey with a book called Overground, confusing travelers published by Éditions Alternatives. A unique, almost sociological look, revealed by a selection of more than 600 photographs of the counterculture with its communities, demonstrations, squats, free parties...

Following his meeting with the artist Nef, they created the Nef&bze© graphic studio (focused on electronic music).

Returning to his roots, the aesthetics of the letter, Bze devotes himself in the studio to painting on canvas or paper. His contemporary calligraphy, Neo-writer, tends towards minimal abstractionism.

An artistic journey marked by diversity and authenticity, a thirst to share.

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