the graffiti artist Nasty seizes the RATP panels to emphasize its art

EXHIBITION until february 14th at the gallery Bailly contemporain

Nasty is one of the most eloquent artists of its generation. Resulting from the second wave of European artists fascinated by works on the New Yorkean trains of the precursory “old timer” of the movement, it intervenes on the subway.Clever and creative it borrows from the subway, its plates and its plans and makes the support of its works of it. It will be with its accomplice Slice, the first to have the idea of it. Consequently, it installs all the gasoline of its movement within the privileged framework of the galleries,recovering an element of the street furniture in what it has moreover symbolic system (the subway) to invest it of its style to the round and coloured letters.
Contemporary the Bailly gallery, will present in a rigorous selection of works all the extent of the talent of the artist: of its intelligence to the support (plane, plate, sculpture, bends) with its rich play of writings - tag with the graff.Here Nasty installs its work in time but especially testifies to its true nature of artist of graffiti while paying homage to the Masters of its movement.

label : galerie bailly contemporain