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Musée Paul Valéry et Le MIAM à Séte
The "Graffiti stories" exhibition offers a non-exhaustive reading of graffiti, like a state of the art thirty years after Taki 183, Cornbread, Cool Earl, Barbara and Eva 62... The Musée Paul Valéry in Sète and the Fondation Auberive present the Speerstra collection, the cream of American Old School graffiti.
Organized jointly by the Musée International des Arts Modestes, the Musée Paul Valéry in Sète and the Abbaye d'Auberive, the Graffiti Stories exhibition offers a non-exhaustive reading of graffiti, taking stock 30 years after the phenomenon first appeared.
Today, graffiti is recognized as both a social phenomenon and a major mode of artistic expression. Despite the fierce polemics it still provokes, it has conquered new territories and is the subject of major retrospectives in national museums.
Although the aerosol can remains the preferred tool, street artists have extended their field of expression - stencil, airbrush, silkscreen, oil pastel, sticker, etc. - and new graphic forms have enriched the art scene. -The particular terrain of modern cities, in perpetual mutation, has provided the essential support for the blossoming of new talents, enabling graffiti to develop and eventually become an integral part of the public space.
The "Graffiti stories" exhibition offers a non-exhaustive reading of graffiti, like a state of the art thirty years after Taki 183, Cornbread, Cool Earl, Barbara and Eva 62...
The Musée Paul Valéry in Sète and the Fondation Auberive present the Speerstra collection, the cream of the American old school.
MIAM invites Graffiti artists from around the world to paint the walls, ceiling and floor of the Musée des Arts Modestes and part of the Abbaye d'Auberive to create a gigantic work of art. Once again, Hervé Di Rosa, in collaboration with Jean Claude Volot, has taken on the task of blasting boundaries and clichés, offering us a glimpse of 21st-century painting.
