Paris is not only museums, palaces, narrow streets, romantic cafes, but also hundreds of thousands of graffiti that flooded the city. Street art appeared on the outskirts of Paris at the end of the twentieth century and gradually filled the whole city-huge murals are found on the ends of high-rise buildings on the outskirts and in the center, small graffiti decades decorate the facades of houses in the heart of the city, hundreds of frescoes of unknown artists are adjacent to the works of world stars of street art. In this abundance is easy to get confused, get lost and not see the main thing. We will talk about 9 places where you can see the best street art of Paris.
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1. Frescoes of the Gallery ITINERRANCE in 13 district
The Itynerans Gallery is one of the main galleries of the street art of Paris. Since 2004, it has popularized street art, supports young artists and collaborates with the best street artists from around the world, who are invited to decorate huge areas in different places of Paris. The most famous gallery project is Street Art 13, during which in 2009 the gallery invited 25 artists from 13 countries to decorate the ends of multi -storey buildings in the 13th area with huge murals. Among the artists participating in the project are Conor Harrington, D* Face and Shepard Fairey. As a result, 32 works turned out that art critics more than once called the “Graffiti Museum in the open air” and one of the best graffiti of France.
Most murals are located next to National metro station, on Vincent Auriol Boulevard. The addresses of all 32 works, photos and plan are on the Gallery website.
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2. Museum of Street Art and Post-Graffiti Art 42 in the 17th area
Art 42 is the first in France of the Street Art Museum, which opened in the 17th district of Paris in 2016. The museum does not have its own premises, its collection is placed in the halls, corridors and on the walls of the innovative school of computer science, founded by Ksavier Nielle. The museum exposition is based on work from the collection of artist Nicolas Laserra.
The Street Art exposition occupies 4000 m², which contains 150 works of 42 artists, including such celebrities as Obey, Space Invader, Futura 2000, Bansky, Jr, Bault.
Museum address: 96 Boulevard Bessières. It is free and open to the public on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Visitors are asked to choose the visit time and register on the museum website in advance.
3. Hundreds of Space Invader works in all areas of Paris
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Space Invader (space invader) is one of the most famous street artists in Europe and the world, its mosaic drawings dedicated to the Space Invaders game, in many countries-from Tokyo to New York and Melbourne. Even at the International Space Station there is its mosaic.
The birthplace of Invader is France, its work can be found in 32 cities, and most of all of them in Paris. The first Mosaics of Invader appeared in the city in 1996, and now there are 1340 of them. Mosaics have inviders and heroes of the GIK/pop culture: Mario, Pink Panther, Dr. House, Spider-Man, Princess Leia, etc.
Most of the artist’s works are concentrated in the 11th area. And those who want to know the location and find all 1340 mosaic of the artist and participate in the quest, we advise you to install the Flash Invaders application.
4. Street Art Avenue project in the 19th area of Paris
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Street Art Avenue is a project of the Paris City Hall, dedicated to holding in the city of Euro 2016, in the framework of which 37 artists were allocated for graffiti, mosaic, frescoes and collages of several thousand square meters of buildings, bridges and walls on both shores of the Saint-Denin channel, on a segment from herd de de la-linovlet. Unavida Familia, Alexandra Arango, Rébus & Bastos, Marco 93, Guaté Mao participated in the creation of the frescoes.
5. Oberkampf and Menilmontan (Oberkampf, Ménilmontant)-Street Arts in the east of Paris
Photo: © helene-laxenaire / lemur.fr
The east of Paris is one of the cradle of French street art. He is here everywhere – on bridges, roofs and walls of houses. In addition to thousands of graffiti of unknown authors, there are real masterpieces: graffiti associations Art Azoi and Le Mur
Le Mur call their frescoes “ephemeral” and offer different artists several times a year to make in an atelier and glue 3 by 8 meters to the wall at 107 Rue Oberkampf, which will be sealed with the work of other artists a month later.
The Art Azoi associations belong to 3 walls (Square Karcher, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin and on the corner of Rue de Bagnolet street). Every few months they are allowed to paint three different artists who work in different styles.
6. Wall Rosa Parks, the largest street art Paris
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The wall of Rosa Parks, 500 meters of which was painted by 5 artists from different countries-the largest street art in Paris. The wall was built in 2015, when the city of the Rer E high-speed line of the metro station was opened in this area of the city and gave the GFR team for painting, which invited artists (Kashink from Paris, Bastardilla from Bogota, Katjastroph from Berlin, Tatyana FazLalizadeh from New York and Zepha from Tuluzi) together paint the wall. Graffiti are made in a variety of styles, colors and techniques. Also, next to the wall of Rosa Parks, at the Riquet bridge there is a great Galerie à ciel uvert r’style Street Art Gallery, where young French artists are exhibited.
7. Street art on the shores of the Urki Canal (Canal de l’Ourcq) in the east of Paris
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The Urksky Canal is one of the main centers of the street art of Paris. The first graffiti appeared here more than 30 years ago, since then thousands of frescoes were drawn on the shores of the canal and bridges, boats and telephone cabins. Residential and abandoned houses were painted from the foundation to the roof, and monumental frescoes arose on the facades of high -rise buildings.
Once every few years, street art festivals are held here, thanks to which more and more interesting graffiti appears on the shores of the channel. The Street Art zone begins next to the Grand Marché Stalingrad market, lasts almost 10 kilometers and ends on the border of Paris in Aulnay-Sous-Bois. It is most convenient to consider street art, walking, driving a bicycle along the shore of the canal or sailing on a boat that walks along the channel in the summer. If you do not have time to inspect the entire street art zone, then visit the streets of Quai de Loire, Rue Polemarch, Quai de Valmy and 1 Rue de L’Ancien Canal-the best graffiti are concentrated there.
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