Konu - Artist Info

About Konu

  • Biography from Blancs-Manteaux Auction (CLOSED)

    Konu was born in 1972 in Saint Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and his childhood living in Sarcelles in the Paris suburbs.View Hip Hop in 1984 by music "Rock It" and the Hip-Hop TV "Sidney. He realized bomb some stencils in 1988 but soon began graffiti end 89 in Normandy.

    It is in Paris and the suburbs dice 90 that tag and graff, taking of photographs on the tracks and in waste areas. at that time he participated in the Fanzine illustrations "Yourz." in 1994 and 1998 he emigrated to province where anime graffiti workshops. in 1999 he left to work abroad enriched by diverse cultures (Sicily, Cuba, Switzerland, French Polynesia ...) in 2000 his artistic pseudonym exchange for "Konu" a snub its often poorly recognized graffiti scene work.

    In 2001, he made great totems precedence gesture on the subject without prior sketches. 2006 "Konu" meeting the iT tool merging its assets with computer graphics. in 2008, he traces his career in an exhibition combining painting, sculpture and video "18 years of graffiti" visible on Dieppe.

    Currently he is still active in the middle of the graffiti, and participating in various exhibitions.

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