Known as "France's answer to Banksy", Christian Guémy, also known as C215 is
a Parisian street artist focused on stencil graffiti. Born in 1973,
C215 started spray painting in 2005 and is today one of the finest, and
most productive stencil artists on the street art scene.His striking
portraits of local people, children and especially his daughter Nina are
expressive and distinctive in style. With his subjects always portrayed
as proud and dignified, his images communicate on an universal level
and draw attention to those that society has forgotten about. Although
C215 has been writing and publishing poetry separately, the artist never
adds text to his stencils, in order to give the viewer the full
possibility of the interpretation. In his choice of backgrounds, layers
of random, yet well selected found objects speak of passing time, with
an outcome that is both, aesthetic and meaningful.
His elaborate stencils- if outside a gallery- appear in the streets of
various cities all over the globe, such as New Delhi, London, Istanbul,
Fes, Rome, Barcelona, and Paris.Lighting up the urban spaces they
decorate, every stencil has a reason to exist in its specific, well
thought of place and all his pieces are hand cut and sprayed originals
with a mix of found objects.
Courtesy of [C215]
