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Born 1975 Paris. Known for: Street Art Painting.
Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the... Read full biography
Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the southern suburbs. Self-taught, Babs is considered one of the best writers of his generation. The letter... Read full biography
Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the southern suburbs. Self-taught, Babs is considered one of the best writers of his generation. The letter represents the inalienable core of his work that makes a major representative of the French wildstyle. He painted together in the late 1990s with the 3HC crew initially. In 1992 he began to paint... Read full biography
Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the southern suburbs. Self-taught, Babs is considered one of the best writers of his generation. The letter represents the inalienable core of his work that makes a major representative of the French wildstyle. He painted together in the late 1990s with the 3HC crew initially. In 1992 he began to paint trains, metro and RER of the capital with the DSP, spontaneously and instinctively, in free style. He has created several hundred graffiti under twenty nicknames. This work, systematically cleaned by the services of the RATP, are photographed and often... Read full biography
Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the southern suburbs. Self-taught, Babs is considered one of the best writers of his generation. The letter represents the inalienable core of his work that makes a major representative of the French wildstyle. He painted together in the late 1990s with the 3HC crew initially. In 1992 he began to paint trains, metro and RER of the capital with the DSP, spontaneously and instinctively, in free style. He has created several hundred graffiti under twenty nicknames. This work, systematically cleaned by the services of the RATP, are photographed and often filmed, but the illegal nature of the work prevents any traces of conservation. The sketches of this time are systematically destroye... Read full biography
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Babs was born in Paris in 1975, a French ex-vandal. He discovered graffiti at the age of 11, where in 1986/87 he first tagged the streets of Vitry-sur-Seine city and the neighboring towns in the southern suburbs. Self-taught, Babs is considered one of the best writers of his generation. The letter represents the inalienable core of his work that makes a major representative of the French wildstyle. He painted together in the late 1990s with the 3HC crew initially.
In 1992 he began to paint trains, metro and RER of the capital with the DSP, spontaneously and instinctively, in free style. He has created several hundred graffiti under twenty nicknames. This work, systematically cleaned by the services of the RATP, are photographed and often filmed, but the illegal nature of the work prevents any traces of conservation. The sketches of this time are systematically destroyed. Vandalism is a lifestyle and a state of mind in which he claimed would write repeatedly.
Absolutist gender, constantly pushing the boundaries of its mode of expression through his passion rolling support, he works in one of the most radical branches of Parisian graffiti in the UV TPK groups. He paints regularly with Frez, Keag, Sezam, Fuzi, Rap or Trane. Through the vandal and illegal, he explores the art of transgression and its many facets, those outbid and risk taking, also of provocation which especially says the character of a rebellious.
He also worked in body painting, hardcore performance, regularly organized by Keag and Sore on female models in the Paris metro, which lead to the release of a book entitled Pimp My Bitch in 2010.
In 2009, Babs is invited to participate in the "Graffiti State of Play" exhibition at the Galerie du Jour Agnès where he made a monumental work on the largest wall of the large window with Keag and Sore, in a vandal spirit, "dirty" and deliberately not something aesthetic. They gather for the occasion, as the Graffeur Delight.
In 2010, he left the underground subway and back walls to work outdoors. He painted with Suby, Keag, Dem 189 and Seth (Julien Malland) on the wall. It pushed the art of letter such as semi-wildstyle requires. His sense of developed color, the brilliance of his line and the perfection of his lettering plot became a recognized visual signature.
In 2012, he initiated a work on canvas and made a series in homage to Piet Mondrian, that he exhibited with his original crew 3HC. He was invited to paint the Palais de Tokyo as part of the exhibition "In the bowels of the Palais de Tokyo" initiated by Hugo Vitrani and orchestrated by Dem 189 Lek & Sowat. He continues, alongside painting on canvas, the wall portion of the work in France and abroad.