JonOne, Mambo, Steph Cop and Aurel Rubbish embodying this artists' generation with a urban influence. They are in today’s most prestigious and international art collections and this is why the Speerstra Gallery is pleased to show the under the great nave of the Grand Palais in Paris.
For more than thirty years, the Speerstra Gallery is dedicated in the dissemination of the graffiti movement. Gallery owners and collectors from father to son since 1984, the gallery is embodied today by Willem Speerstra. His passion for the graffiti movement and for art led him to be the precursors in his domain. Willem Speerstra remains faithful to his artistic commitment, and supports without defect the most talented artists. It is important for him to discover new artists who were inspired by the urban culture, these have now become emerging contemporary artists. JonOne, Mambo, Steph Cop and Aurel Rubbish embodying this artists' generation with a urban influence. They are in today’s most prestigious and international art collections and this is why the Speerstra Gallery is pleased to show the under the great nave of the Grand Palais in Paris.
JonOne: His works are an explosion of colors and energy, JonOne writes calligraphy that is illuminated by his colorer's talent.
Mambo: His work is figurative and currently reflects modern society’s icons, well-known visual codes, pictograms, popular imagery that the media and consumer society convey.
Steph Cop: His work is the result of a meeting between the machine and the nature, the power and the sweetness, the materials and the scale.
Aurel Prevost aka Rubbish: The artist nourishes each of his paper-cuts with various references drawn from painting, religious icons and tattoo art.
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