“I think this museum is a turning point,” he added. He described the street art movement as “the most important in the history of art, because when you count the number of pieces being made across the world every day, count the number of artists, it is absolutely huge”. While street art and graffiti shows have been the subject of numerous exhibitions over the past five years, it is the biggest acknowledgment so far of urban art as a legitimate art form, with an enormous fanbase worldwide.īlek le Rat, 66, who studied at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris but made his name spraying graffiti rats on the streets of Paris in the 1980s, said he was thrilled that an institution was validating his life’s work. The museum has also been given outside wall space in Berlin, and taken over the nearby metro station with a giant window illustration. Its opening show has new works by over 100 of the most famous street artists working today, from Shepard Fairey (the artist behind the Obama Hope poster) to 3D (the frontman of Massive Attack), Ron English and Blek le Rat, the Parisian street artist who is seen as the pioneer of stencil street graffiti.
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