thanks to you have heat the space
here I am a painter and I
works for a beer brand
it’s funny I’ll explain that
means outlaw I can not the
quote the castle that’s why not
why not a week ago
I had an appointment with the new
brand manager
so it’s a rendezvous a bit
confidential to explain to him
explain a little what was the
relationship we had with the brand
how did we collaborate for 20
years and that she is our way which
was our way of us
position
so he told me is what you
answer debrief the diagram
classical voice makes it stand out
no no we do not answer debrief
needs to meet outside of
offices in other places exchanging
and at a time when we are doing
things are important to people
have either here we do as soon as we
not in something closed
but something open that we
brings and that we as an artist
we need and we used the brand
to communicate things to people
to go to people
entered the system to bring
things to people that’s really
really important because otherwise I
prefer to stay in my studio
rather than going to waste time with
people who do not understand anything and who
are not open to others
so that’s to say that it takes
always stay in what we are and
in his veil has in his craft of
painter
so here I am going to ask you a
question who drew when he was
small you can raise your hand to everything
the world
yeah that’s a bit of a writing
universal the first writing
and who drew today still there
of the world anyway it’s great
pleases
bah veiled me like you I have not
stopped drawing I was lucky
do not stop drawing
I was lucky to have a father who
was painting when I was a child
maybe that’s why I just
wanted to do my job
he was painting but not making a living with
so I wanted to prove it’s a
job one could make a living with
so it’s pretty funny because
still today when I meet
people they say what is your job
I say bah painter people tell me
but you win your life so it’s
terrible we are dealing with something
terrible and during my schooling that
was very difficult because me
I had this thing here it was my way
to express myself is a good way to
communicate with each other I do not arrive
not to write it was very hard
besides writing things and and
I did not understand why
school at one time did not push me
that I was good at the time of
kings and then you’re going to do some maths
do not save you’ll go home
in the system and I had not
want to enter the system
I wanted to do what I had
want to do and that’s
catastrophic I think the school
must bring people to find
sail to find what is their passion
so that they can be in their life
and be able to do what theirs theirs
like it’s really really really
important I was lucky after a
little older around 16-17 years of
work at the hospital of puffs
puppy hospital
Here is a place where
children are there and have been affected
by units of major diseases and
weird people this awesome is great
you help people but I say
I help nobody I am in the exchanges
to say that I’m in here in the
relation to each other and in that
the other can bring me
this is me I’m right here in
humility and what brought me
his children that ‘s when they
had in life that strength that they
had in life and that’s me I had
my two legs I breathed and I run
but it’s not possible for me to go
side of my life I have to go there
where I have to go it’s important
and then I was lucky again
times 2
meeting and ned who is a friend I have
known in fourth and we had the
same desires we were very different
we had the same desire to paint and we
did a graphic design school and we
met jerk who was here
someone a little bit apart and then we
had something strong all the
three we had this desire to paint the
graphic design did not fit in
body this rebellion facing the system
school that did not correspond to us and
we said we are going to create a
collective
so we created the collective 9th concept
in 1990 it was the name of a comic book
had written ned and then at that moment
there the galleries the middle of the art
ball that we make a style of
video installations of the photo is
in the conceptual but we were a
other thing I have no problem with the
photo and video but we had
want to paint but here are the people do not
did not want us to expose ourselves so we
said good luck we must find others
solutions so there we published some
stickers that we stuck a little
everywhere in paris
it’s funny we ‘ve done more than
700 models today it’s a
support that has always accompanied us
since it’s a support that we can
give people who can be exchanged and
that people take ownership of it and make it
what they want and thanks to these
stickers we met a
important person at the time to
paris called mike sylla a
Senegalese who was really a
figure of the activism in two
great Parisian and he had the idea
to recover clothes from
clothes of the 70s and the
to be repainted by artists
we made more than 600 pieces
been for us an exercise
extraordinary and we were in the art
in motion the reporter by the people
not just here I’m doing a painting I
stay in my studio we were in
something interactive and it has
been very important because he
made it clear that to get there and
develop in collective it was necessary
develop a ned economy had
the idea of following the clothes of
to draw on the corsican was related to his
style because he had a very style
epic linked to its Breton origins
this is Celtic and he had the idea of
draw on people but we do
wanted it to be free for
people we did not want to make them pay
and at the time to the evin law that is
past and the halls necklace with the
right to communicate the same way
that before then they had budgets
for other things we ended up
to tour all over the
France so we ended up at the end
of two years with more than 600 date so
we hired our friends it was
extraordinary it allowed us to
develop our stylistic and then
also at the time had no internet
there were not any at all
networks and so to touch a little bit
that was our country as the
people operate in a certain environment
bars and nightclubs
it was quite interesting and
the time we met this famous
mark so I was talking to you at the beginning and
she’s after a year of working with
they turned the CEO tells us that’s it
I give you time and you do this
that you want in parallel with
agencies that was just crazy what to
the time was crazy and we continued
to develop the tours we went up
amazing tours we were
mixed hip hop dance the bmx
urban art
we have the dj we had the means
to do it and to be able to do it at
from there we also worked on
other concepts we wanted because we
know part of this culture this
Sliding culture
we wanted people to visit
a skate expo that we launched the ex
powell command board where people
could visit the expo it was
great it allowed a little bit of
live an exhibition of another
way
from there we mounted another
idea because we’ve always wanted
to have ideas to share them
with the people we put up the labyrinth
so that what was funny is
that we wanted to bring the showroom
in people so there we led him to
seaside and people could
visit the expo by going to the beach
during one week
except that we reverse the process of
creation ie people
could see the artists working
and by the time the artists had
finished working have disassembled
all so people could go in
in the workshop because it’s hard to
to go into an artist’s studio
and then because of this, lots of brands
begins to approach us
we did not want to work with
brands and do anything so to
a moment we say here we want
do that if you do not want to do that
it’s not worth it so we had
dreams
we had desires we did with the
brand fooled collector bottles
it was amazing we did the
department store windows
that was very interesting I have a
anecdote by the way quite nice enough
or a gentleman of a certain age not to
these new so in the showcase he says
it’s crazy me I always dreamed of
to paint, but that’s it
i put pp parents wanted me to do
something else and today I got
handed over and see you paint it’s
fantastic for me so we have
worked with lots of brands
and with the money we have collected
we could mount voices there from another
concept a purely artistic concept
and we started working on the
social security sheet and the
dressing
we stuck around the city
and it was interesting what like the
collective brandishing people
could express themselves on these leaves and
his bandages is a common support
to all and the idea was to think the
city with pictures and especially
multiply the images not year
always the same picture and reproduce a
logo in the street we were already
in the brands and we wanted to do
to move inside it was not for
reproduce in our artistic milieu
a logo and that people at one time we
just identify with a logotype and then
always in the idea of creation we have
wanted to intervene in the street of another
way with the labels and the
labels it’s interesting what
it is a medium that they do not mark
that they do not damage the space and we have
played on the report at the prices honda no
things and the images that were given to
people because we are producing the
but we offered them to people there was
always a blank label people
could also express themselves for
working with us here we have had
ideas also related to music because
we had our friends already and we
was always in the evenings at
on the side we stick to it we have to go up
something or a moment we are all
public ensemble can go on stage
and so we can draw the
concept of what we see here it’s
that the dj takes a record he does not know
what he played the public goes on
scene customize it with stickers
after the artist draws and people
leave with an original work at
them for free
because that too we did it
finance for it to be free for
people after we are passionate
resistant vinyls today
it’s funny because it comes down to
the fashion
and here we invited buddies
spent nine vinyl in our workshop
then we did podcasts with
new system today we can
spread things and that’s it
free accessibility to something else
so that’s most of them are
passionate about vinyl go the
recover so not necessarily yielded
pieces that we hear everywhere
so there are less known known people
who come here and then as a result
of that we mounted another idea the
scratch peppers that was also linked to
technological evolution we could
printed on large papers at
reasonable prices and the idea was
here is to superimpose the things of a
tribute to Jacques Villeglé who was
an artist who tore up interests
advertising posters and we have
created a collective concept and
interactive where people too
intervene we also created with this
exhibition concept it’s people
heartbreaking that creates the exhibition of the
the pompidou center seeing the activity
we had and all the projects we had
ridden here we said come do a
expo center where it was a trick
unbelievable because I kid I had
said I had told my friends one day
we will do the pompidou center this is it
important will do it and then that’s
arrived so we put our workshop in
meaning for three months and we have
created interactive spaces where the
people can draw around our
chalk board and that was it
fantastic evening we sat on
was watching it was crazy
it was more baup our tables years that
was done it was beautiful
that’s all for you to talk about
chance that I have to work in
collective
here are two sets of this happiness a moment
to criticize the difficulty too
because you have to learn to
know
you have to learn to respect the other
or as a leader I was brought
to do a job on me for not
affix my vision to others
neuroses forever is showing
we are all different months here I am
led the projects but I was not
better than the person behind who
put things in place we are all
different and we all have things to
its reach there is no superiority
is on a level
pyramidal apa and painting
how to say that has always been for
me my good way to be connected
with life net rates with life
here is always looking to be in
difficulty so I worked on
portraits to understand each other and
also because little I told myself rage
do not know how to draw
so I wanted I developed a
very precise technique to prove
that I knew how to draw but what
interested me the most behind
it was going to meet two
others others other people
cultures another vision of life and
I drew a lot from
anthropological photos for their
to give a new life in space
urban to show that at some point
is there with our system is that there is
other systems other systems of
beliefs of any religious system
not to mention religion but here
of spirituality that are important
that we canceled it by imposing a
vision and that we must feed ourselves and
here is to impregnate
and then after the pompidou center our
medium of so called art backgrounds
urban development and the market
started to get interested and g
that’s me I’ve never done that for
to earn a lot of money I ‘m just doing
there to do my job is just
make a living to do what I have to
do and I saw how the donation
the market operate I’ve been
disgusted so I thought I’ll
stop painting
because it does not fit me
do not want to evolve in this environment
and suddenly I decided to ride that
collective concepts is to observe
people and then we put together an idea
which is called the collective graffiti we have
let people express themselves and that was
done as part of the festival black and
Basque mounted by mosquitoes with whom we
worked on groland for seven
years and his wife christelle a festival
amazing full of benevolence and
and then people start to
to draw children adults but
in here it is by being
uninhibited, ie by letting go
things and not being watching
what am I doing these kids that I decide
and
precisely we must let go of things and
then things are superimposed and there we
happens to something powerful and
it was I was moved I was the
great I’m happy to live this and
then the line of christelle who artists
now that he was not who was
at the time who made it his job
tell me bah will draw
and then there frost announced it’s great
like that and then to minova we’re going
to draw I say good go I go there I
draw and then that was the
revelation
it was huge that is to say that
it’s a moment it’s crazy in the lily
a moment when we let go that the
things are happening and there it has been
that’s the explosion today I do not
do not know what I’m doing here but I
know I have to do it this is
that’s it I went back in
something very strong of very
powerful that comes from sailing to
depths I do not know where it comes from
but and then I got the ball chance to
at least from march to go to india a
sailor of ganges
it’s for a project called is are
for tibet so I’m going to paint
in the village of the Dalai Lama at the
meeting of the Tibetan people in exile
and then I start painting and then
right away we were invited in a
workshop the masters workshop time
so that the masters have time to break
painters there in this case they are in
exile and you enter the workshop you
take a slap at the technical level
so you have 30 meters working and
it’s pieces that are made of
1 to 3 years already the raffle
the temporality changes and then its a
walk is a precision of which you are
in the humidity you come back there you are
say but what happiness is there they are
there to testify to their history
so there is a deep meaning to their
work and I feel in agreement with
because I was afraid to go
to take there I have to have that
I feel things and then here I am
continue to make my wall and there the
master time because the great master in
case comes to me and tells me he is my
painting that feels it he’s typing me in
the back then it’s a bit violent but
it was the powerful
so I do not know what made me go
but he made me pass something
important
that’s all to tell you that low
all this way here today I
become aware and I took
consciousness that I owe it to the soul and
parents to trust me
given that it has no price
this trust is something
standards we have to trust
his children must allow them to go
where they have to go and that’s it
thank you and I love them here they are
made me a huge gift and then
a very short time ago I saw a
book and then I see that the word
job means mission of life mission
of life and I have always had
the impression of being in my life mission
and here I think we all have to
a moment to find out what is our mission
screw and a beautiful definition of the word
job is its real definition on
cheated on him and he must be
to go there we have to go that there is
no foolish job we all have
all the artists we all have
things to do that we must express
our very quickly and creativity in this
we do we are all different and
we all have to work
are we to bring to
the other not to feed his is beautiful
here I am going to talk to you about one of
latest projects we have mounted that
is called the francos the time it’s a
collective project and it’s still the
brand I was talking about with
which has been working for 20 years
and the financing and purchase works
to each artist his works
today funds have returned to the
background of the brand and the staff of the
brand can have them at home
so that I am very happy and then
here we try with this project
create a human skin and that everyone
in its individuality can
speak out
and that together it creates something
and so we have pockets
of stickers always the sticker
who followed us
we give people it’s free so the
pay system for it to be free
for people but it does not appear
mark does not appear anywhere
and that’s important and then we have
met louis who is a director of
creation works for an agency
digital and then here they created
drops in augmented reality I
do not know if you’ve seen the little
message but in fact it is a
application
and here we can then there you go
know if you downloaded it yourself
will be able to see or see again after
outgoing that’s where we are
on augmented reality here is
like what we can always go to
beyond but it must always be
go in the direction of creativity and
this is something true of
sincere here I thank you for having
listening
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