Details of Nuit Blanche

 This is what this canvas is really about.
Photos by Brigitte Silhol

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
15m x 2.5m (50′ x 8′)
Painted on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris for LE SALON DE PARIS 8^e, ANTIQUAIRES ET ART CONTEMPORAIN

SEE

Street Art Way Below the Streets (click to see original news article)
Layer 1 of 3 of SEE painting

German call to ban workplace kiss
Layer 2 of 3 of SEE painting

Gaddafi regime’s US-UK spy links revealed
Layer 3 of 3 of SEE painting

SEE
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59″x79″)

YOU

Chimpanzees Exchange Money for Sex (click for the original news article)
Layer 1 of 3 of YOU canvas

Number of Americans in poverty hits record high
Layer 2 of 3 of YOU canvas

New Australian Passport Allows Third Gender
Layer 3 of 3 of YOU Canvas

YOU
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
150 x 200 cm

a few things in process

5 Years

‘Five Years’ is a typographical study of five of the major news headlines in the US between 2005-10. As time passes, the immediate impact of such events fades away, quickly replaced by the next big thing. Regardless of our collective amnesia these events did happen and continue to resonate throughout global consciousness. These headlines are the subject matter for this work.

The soundtrack is recorded from the noises of the streets outside the studio in Barcelona where the painting was created. This juxtaposes the immediate subject matter of the painting with the actual surroundings of where it was painted, just as the reality of the American news events often juxtapose themselves starkly against the reality of the rest of world. The soundtrack refers to process. A painter in Barcelona may be as influenced by the American headlines perhaps as greatly as he is by his environment. Media and physical relation are bound in a manner that is both undeniable and difficult to quantify.

This relationship forms the basis of the work as the headlines and sounds change and influence each other.
-text by Harlan Levey

Edited by Max Chamberlain
Special Thanks to Hans Hansen
created as part of the Polo Jeans Art Stars project

Life isn’t always so…

White and Black
in progress