PRO 176 - Artist Info

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    In 1989 he discovered graffiti during a performance of two graffiti artists, Mode2 and Colt, during the festival "89 youth for equality" 2. Operating in a highly social environment steeped in hip-hop culture, he devoted himself very early to both graffiti and rap.

    In 1994, after viewing the video You Can not Stop the Prophet by Jeru the Damaja, he began to sign his tags pseudonym of "Pro" and baptize later, "Profecy" his rapper name.

    In 1996, he joined the Grim-Team, a group of urban artists, composed among others of Oeno, Chaze, Turs or Armen photographer. He renamed the following year Pro176, referring to New yorkais3 graffiti and participates alongside Sozyone include Kool Recto, Kool Func 88 Byz and Gold Jaba, the foundation of Ultra Boys International, a group of graffiti abandoning the traditional codes of the graffiti and claiming a Vanguard impregnated with various influences such as Marvel comics, abstraction, alphabetical constructivism, futurism and cubism.

    Parallel to his activities graffiti, Pro176 is dedicated to his rapping career until the late 2000s Near the rap group Assassin, he participated in various tours of the group. In 2003, under the name of Profecy, he released his first album The Cry of bricks in collaboration with DJ Duke.

    In early 2008, fate Vocabulary Granite prelude of 16 titles in his second Galactik album coming out September 14, 2009 at Livin'Astro. On this album of 15 titles include Kokane, Rockin, Napoleon Da Legend, but also other graffiti artists as Streets or Dead.

    The productions are performed by members of the Grim-Team (Gallegos, Grimy Kid, Chaze) but also by Soper, Junkaz Lou, Dj Duke and MIG1. In 2009, Pro176 puts his career on hold rapper to devote himself fully to painting. The same year, he is looking for a workshop, he met the graffiti-artist New York Seen offering him to join the Seen Studios in Paris.

    Seen alongside, he learned to handle the brush and use acrylic paint. In 2014, he released his first monograph Cosmonometry

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