Why the mouse? The mouse partly because there are more mice in Paris than people, partly because it is a symbol of freedom, of contamination, an animal capable of carrying the virus – art – rapidly throughout the city. Armed with cardboard and spray can, he traces the outline of a mouse for the first time, signed Blek Le Rat. The stencil comes to mind, a technique he had seen for the first time on a trip to Padua: he was struck by the stencil depictions of Mussolini still visible on the walls of the Venetian city in the 1960s. Back home he realizes that he wants to reproduce in the streets of Paris what he had seen in New York, but with a different technique, which better suited the architecture of his city. Parisian, architecture student, he discovers the world of graffiti for the first time during a trip to New York in the 1970s. What he still could not know, however, is precisely that such gesture would have given way to the greatest artistic movement of the twentieth century: Street Art.īlek Le Rat, Xavier Prou to friends, is the father of the stencil. Blek felt it when he imprinted his first stencil on the wall, a mouse, in 1981, that this gesture had a revolutionary significance. Here it was Blek Le Rat who invented it, or rather, to use this technique for the first time as an artistic expression on the streets of Paris. We can call it art express, your message is ready faster than a coffee. By spraying the color inside the cutout you immediately get your shape imprinted on the wall. Do you know how a stencil works? It is a cardboard template, no more, no less.
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