Ash Artist
- This article is about the graffiti artist from the movement, see Ash (band) for the British rock band,
Victor Ash or Ash is a "graffiti artist" of Paris.
He began his artistic career in the early 1980s by painting the bomb on the palisades of work at the Louvre and around the Museum of Modern Art Georges Pompidou in Paris. From 1983 to 1986 Ash was called then Ash2 Saho.
In 1984 Ash was the first to paint in the wasteland of the legendary Metro Stalingrad or Chapel which will quickly become a gathering place for Hip Hop Paris.
Ash belongs to the group of graffiti BBC (Bad Boys Crew) or with BadBc Jayon and Skki. The BBC with Bando , Mode2 , Jonone , strength alphabetically (ex-PCP) are considered precursors of movement graffiti in Europe. Inspired by the styles of letters frescoes Metro New York , they have mostly started by painting their names to the bomb and tagging in the subway. With some stencil artists like Blek le Rat and Miss.Tic they represent the first wave of street art in Europe before Banksy or Zevs.
The first graffiti Ash have been published in several books on the subject as Spraycan Art Henry Chalfant and more recently in the film Writers of Marcus Aurelius and international reporting BOMB IT.
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In 2007, Ash took part in the exhibition backjump to Berlin where he completed the fresco "Astronaut Cosmonaut" this work is located in the district of Kreuzberg on a facade of building highly visible from the subway station U1 Kotbusser Tor.
See also
- Paris free art in the city, Yvan Tessier, Hersh Publishing, 1991 ( ISBN 2-7335-0195-X )
- Tonkar Paris , Tarek Ben Yakhlef and Sylvain Doriath, Editions Florent Massot and Romain Pillement, 1991 ( ISBN 2-908382-09-1 )
- Spraycan Art, Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, Thames and Hudson, 1987 ( ISBN 0-500-27469-X )
- Street artists, MPG Art Editions William Garouste Ategalore, 2004 ( ISBN 2-9523191-0-3 )
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