"C215"
Christian Guemy or by his pen name "C215" is a french graffiti artist who focuses his work on stenciling, portraiture, and images of romance and horror. He has been hailed as France's own Banksy and his works can be seen all over from the streets of Brooklyn, New York to exhibits in Paris. What is interesting about this work in particular is the fact that he exhibits such a broad range of subject matters in his each of his pieces. Best of all, the subject of most of his works happens to be his daughter to whom he is very devoted to. His works are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly eye catching with his illustrious detailing and usage of color in the portraits that he creates. He is also not as secretive and discreet as other street and graffiti artists are which I like because I hold this belief that the world is our canvas and who is to say what part of the earth that we all share is private. We should be free to express and communicate and create works that establish a dialogue between ourselves as the artists and the public that views it.
Street art and graffiti are something I have recently come into interest with. The whole idea of public expression and dialogue I find to be incredibly fascinating and worthwhile to the point that I want to focus my a part of my life career on. Art and expression should never be silenced and if we are trying to advocate that then we should then redefine its boundaries. And in doing so, graffiti and street art would not be seen so much as vandalism, given that there would be guidelines as well as more governmental programs advocating and alloting space for it. Graffiti would thus been seen as public art commenting on the societal norms and limitations in which we live and with such comments, progressive and positive actions maybe could be taken to better the society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-3jjEdF3o
http://c.215.free.fr/
http://us.fotolog.com/c215/58092200/
Experimental Video Shoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZbfkula1I&feature=plcp (with music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLHYZ8SGIg&feature=context-cha
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