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Walk around certain Paris neighborhoods and look on building walls or store gratings, and you'll see spray-painted figures of people or animals, some with words or phrases. This genre of art--mostly stencils, not quite grafitti--came to life in France in the early 1980s. It's now almost institutionalized, with organizations providing backing for new artists each year. Each artist has unique style: provocative women, cute animals, arrows, clever catchphrases--anything to engage with the public.
In this piece, writer Lisa Pham gives a tour of the stencil art on the streets of Paris' 5th arrondisment. Along the way we meet various people, including the artist Jef Aerosol.
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Piece Description
Walk around certain Paris neighborhoods and look on building walls or store gratings, and you'll see spray-painted figures of people or animals, some with words or phrases. This genre of art--mostly stencils, not quite grafitti--came to life in France in the early 1980s. It's now almost institutionalized, with organizations providing backing for new artists each year. Each artist has unique style: provocative women, cute animals, arrows, clever catchphrases--anything to engage with the public. In this piece, writer Lisa Pham gives a tour of the stencil art on the streets of Paris' 5th arrondisment. Along the way we meet various people, including the artist Jef Aerosol.
Broadcast History
This piece aired on Radio France International's English service on April 21, 2007
Timing and Cues
INTRO
If you walk around certain neighborhoods Paris neighborhoods you'll see figures of people or animals spray-painted on building walls and storefronts. It's not quite graffiti: this genre of art- mostly
stencils- came to life in the early '80s. Each artist has unique style
to engage with the public, whether it's provocative women, cute
animals or clever catchphrases. Lisa Pham is an Australian writer
living in Paris who has taken an interest in street art. She gave a
tour of the stencils in Paris' 5th arrondisement to independent
producer Sarah Elzas:
OUTRO:
That was the stencil artist Jef Aerosol at a gallery opening of his in
Paris. The tour of street stencil art was narrated by writer Lisa
Pham, and the piece was produced by Sarah Elzas
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mara caca
Posted on October 13, 2008 at 07:01 AM | Permalink
Review of Stenciling Paris
To me too short but on the other hand very interesting piece that explaing the art the streets of Paris.