sabato, febbraio 21, 2015

Playful in Paris: Life-Sized Interactive Street Art

Playful in Paris: Life-Sized Interactive Street Art: [ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]





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Everyday objects and imperfections in the urban surfaces of Paris become part of strange and unexpected scenes as French artist Levalet incorporates them into life-sized street art. A bull head sculpture becomes a minotaur, map in hand; a figure with a jackhammer goes to work on a damaged section of wall; a display box for advertisements is transformed into an x-ray machine.



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Known by day as an art teacher named Charles Leval, the artist creates humorous scenes that interact with idiosyncrasies and often-unnoticed details in the fabric of the city.



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The life-sized wheat paste posters take advantage of everything from pipes and spigots to false windows and concrete recesses.



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Levalet walks around the city looking for the ideal spots for his work, takes measurements and creates the paste-ups at home before returning to his chosen locations and installing the work.



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He told Street Art News that he considers all of the individual scenes to be part of a larger frame, “where I try to define a cosmology of a parallel world.”


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