The exhibition entitled 'Le Ciel Est Bleu, La Vie Est Belle' (The sky is blue, life is beautiful), featured wooden panels, canvas, screen-print, and photographs, tracing the artist's oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present.īlek le Rat has nonetheless expressed preference for the streets over galleries, stating the integrity of an artist is to be seen by as many people as possible, not being sold or recognized in a museum. It included paintings, silkscreen, and three-dimensional artwork, as well as photography from his wife, Sybille Prou.īlek also had an exhibition in December 2009 at the Metro Gallery in Melbourne, a centre of street art in Australia. His American gallery debut took place at Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008. He participated in the Cans Festival in 2008, which featured outdoor street stencil painting in Waterloo, London. exhibition in London at the Leonard Street Gallery.

In October 2003, Blek le Rat had his first solo U.K. Blek's work is hugely influential to the present generation of street artists, as alluded to by Banksy, stating: 'Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well.

Influence on and opinion of Banksyīritish graffiti artist Banksy and Blek have expressed mutual desire for collaboration in 2011, Blek was seen adding to a mural begun the previous year by Banksy in the Mission District, San Francisco. In 2006 he began his series of images representing the homeless, which depict them standing, sitting, or lying on sidewalks, in attempts to bring attention to what he views as a global problem. Many of his pieces are pictorials of solitary individuals in opposition to larger, oppressive groups. He has had a great influence on today's graffiti-art and ' guerilla-art' movements, the main motivation of his work being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people.

From that point on, he has worked exclusively with pre-stenciled posters, citing the speedier application of the medium to walls, as well as lessened punishment should he be caught in the act. 'Ballerina' by Blek le Rat at the 941 Geary Gallery, San Franciscoįrench authorities identified Blek in 1991 when he was arrested while stencilling a replica of Caravaggio's Madonna and Child, with the connection to Blek and his artwork being made by police.

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