Mambo, born in 1969, is an eclectic artist discovering every day new creative horizons. Mambo, whose real name is Flavien Demarigny, cut his teeth in graffiti. Everything began in the 80s, when at age 15, Mambo met Asphalt, a Parisian graffiti artist. He quickly joined the collective Force Alphabetical in 1986. The following eleven years punctuated the life of this young artist.

Following the dissolution of the group, he joined the 9th Concept in 1998. It was a period clocked by 20 years of research, travel, collaborations and experiments. Now in Los Angeles, he recently decided to put his boxes in order to continue to develop his own visual vocabulary.

"Mambo is a painter who questions, an illustrator and a graphic designer who travels the world observing," says Sarah Mattera, curator at the Centre Pompidou. With multiple artistic influences and practices, Mambo wanders the world and with a universal language he describes attitudes, behavior, human emotions while raising questions about human stupidity.