![]() ![]() 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 – available from the gallery on the night. 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 beautifully produced 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. Indeed, it was Blek’s silhouette stencil of a rat (an image Banksy was later to adopt for Bristol and London) as early as 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. Blek le Rat at BRP, by form01 on 14:50:20 GMT 1, Blek le Rat ‘Getting Through The Walls’Ĭonsidered 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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