Artists, be it graffiti painters, writers, sculptors, researchers, filmmakers, or song producers, feel this need and come up with ‘avant-garde’ artistic tools, software and techniques - giving rise to art as we experience today. With every passing era, the need to break the shackles of obsolete norms and rules is desperately felt. One such characteristic movement is of street artists.Ģ1st-century art is thriving with tasteful pieces on the diverse ongoings in the world, combined with the evolution of our experiences and preferences. This makes the British art scenario the most creatively diverse and distinct, giving rise to new movements and developments. Moreso, it is currently ranked as the most magnetic city by GPCI, powerful enough to attract a variety of creative individuals and enterprises. If you don’ t have an invite for the show tonight you can always pop along to the London Graphic Centre in Covent Garden.Britain is the epicentre of modern art and its rich art history is proof enough.
The show will feature many new works as well as iconic images tracing the history of Blek’s career, along with a number of prints. To celebrate the book launch the Black Rat Gallery is staging the largest Blek exhibition to date. In recognition of this Thames & Hudson have published a retrospective book entitled, Blek Le Rat: Getting Through the Walls. This is essentially the blueprint street artists the world over are still reading from today.
Blek has always used his art as both a democratic means of bringing the gallery walls to the people and to change the way we interact with the urban spaces around us.
It was Blek’s silhouette stencil of a rat (an image Banksy was later to adopt for Bristol and London) in 1981 that broke away from the graffiti political slogans and injected it with a fresh new language of political art. Banksy is on record as saying that, “Every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek LeRat has done it as well. Almost all of whom arrived a whole generation after Blek started hitting the streets of Paris back in the early eighties. Considered to be the father of stencil street art, Blek Le Rat (aka Xavier Prou) has had a profound influence on today’s current crop of street artists.
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