VLPs, which stands for Live Painting, is a group French current of urban art , activist movement graffiti. VLP lives and works in Paris.

VLP, born in the early 1980s ^{The key ideas}

VLPs operate as a rock band that would favor the "live" recording studio. He inspired the currency, comics and the history of art. For them, the works should be meaningful and give pause. VLPs working as a research laboratory where irony and questioning are the engine. They occur simultaneously on the same support and materials they use (posters, cardboard boxes, hoardings, plates zinc roofs of Paris ...) often come from the street, which for them is the last area freedom.

History

1980-1985: The catacombs at channel Ourcq

In 1980, the three painters are found in the Catacombs of Paris at parties punk rock and painting. They base VLPs three years later and paint to spray the fences of the hole of Halles and those near Beaubourg , the Museum of Modern Art ... This is the beginning of street art in France in this dynamic of Other groups are also formed. VLPs are also found in suburbs where they use acrylic paint and lacquer industry. Their first fair was held at the perforation Gallery Diagonal in Montparnasse: they set up in the yard fence borrowed from a construction site, the bulge, the cut with a chainsaw and distribute the pieces to the public in freezer bags. It is the Sacrifice of sovaj. In 1985, the VLPs are organizing with the mayor of Bondy, the first gathering of graffiti along the channel of the Ourcq. Miles of walls and bridges are painted and an exhibition entitled The Flamboyants takes place at Espace Maurice Chauzy Bondy combining art and graffiti Figuration Libre. That year also, they realize paints posters for the show My life my death of Pier Paolo Pasolini written by Kathy Acker and edited by Richard Foreman at the Theatre de la Bastille, they stuck in the subway.

1986-1999: Between France and Germany: fences and performance

Follows a period when the VLPs enslave paintings on fences, collage and performance. First, they stick to original posters, The hundred butting in Paris. Then, pirate, with Ripoulin Brothers , billboards in neighborhoods Opera and Madeleine. They paint live on stage at the Palace , the Rex Club , where the locomotive ... occur at the same time rock bands. From France to Germany, there is only one step. VLPs that cross quickly. From 1989 and for ten years, they exhibit in Berlin, Leipzig, Koblenz, Trier or Munich, where they paint in front of a live audience and television shows. Fans of collective action, based on VLPs Since 1996 the band with their friends Miss Tic , paella Chimicos and Daniel Baugeste with which they achieve common stars as L'Espace Paul Ricard to host a major exhibition.

2000: The Birth of Zeman

Logo Zeman

With the new millennium appears Zeman. Created from a compilation of photos submitted by surfers , is a profile that represents the anti-hero, the human who has questions. In his mind, the jostle information, represented by pixels figurative or abstract. Fired on placards, Zeman is accompanied by a phrase that everyone can interpret freely. VLPs Zeman stick on the walls of cities. Parallel to this street work, this iconic character is featured on the canvases that VLPs exhibit in the gallery: Artazart, Espace Beaurepaire, Anne Vignial, GM Kahn ...

2005: Zeman Kojito, iconic character VLP

In 2005, Zeman was born Kojito. Character Length (2 meters high), with its bubble expressing his doubts about himself and the state of the world, it is also on street corners in Paris, surprising the way with which he began a dialogue. It is also found in galleries Marion Meyer, Keller, Cabinet d'Amateur ... Three years later, the Urban Art exhibition Vive dedicate this work started a quarter century earlier. It takes place at the Univer Gallery in Paris, where VLPs and Colette Colla, director of the site, invite friends early painters: Gerard Zlotykamien , paella?, Jerome Mesnager , Dix10 and Jean Faucheur.

Bibliography

Books

• Denys Riout, The Book of graffiti, Editions Alternatives , 1990
• Dominique Estegassy, Anonymity and signature, the French Documentation , 1989
• VLPs, Vive La Peinture, Criteria editions , 2003
• S. Lemoine and J. Terral, In situ, ed. Alternatives, 2008
• VLP (Vive La Peinture), Criteria editions, Opus Collection offense, 2009

Press Quotes

• Violent, cheerful, bold, screaming their paintings against the gray, armed with enthusiasm, generosity and a rare graphic efficiency (Jean-Louis Pradel, Thursday's event , 1986).
• What seems significant to me today is as much a complete renewal of expressionist painting, even baroque, that the action of fresco painters such as VLP ( Francis Pluchart , Pole Position, 1985)
• Violence and crudity, trance and dance, urban warfare and ritual of exorcism: the art of VLP ( Andr Laude , Artension , 1990)
• Their Speciality WAS ILLEGALLY wild painting frescos Their walls were built and fences, goal now THEY paint everywhere, Even for galleries (Kim Levin, The Village Voice - New York, 1988)
• They have a mad love of their art ... if this continues, we will offer a museum! (Christine Masson, L'Express , 1985)
• Thus, behind the generic name of Vive La Peinture, hiding artists who share the same past guerrilla art (Elisabeth Couturier, Paris-Match , 1987)
• VLP, derived from the cons-culture of the 80s, gave a real boost to the paint (Harry Kampianne, Art Actuel, 2002)
• Today, they are among the few of that generation still use the walls as vehicles of communication and exhibition ephemera (Graff it!, 2002)
• Zeman Kojito inhabits the walls of Paris ... VLPs campaigning for the return of painting in the street ( Le Monde 2, 2006)

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