The artist
Born in 1965 in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Kriki founded in 1984 the plastic artist group Nuklé-Art and the electro-punk music group Les Envahisseurs and produced numerous stencils and hacks of advertising displays in the streets and the metro of the Paris region, thus participating in the emergence of Street Art. In 1985 he participated in the wild frescoes of the Ourcq canal then joined forces with Éditions Parallèles for the publication of “Pochoirs à la Une”, an essential reference for the pioneers of stencil and Street Art. For the critic Jean-Luc Chalumeau he is “a fundamental figure of punk culture in contemporary French art”. But Kriki also belongs to this generational sensibility of the Free Figuration movement, which he contributes to his revitalization. His rich and constantly evolving work reveals worlds constructed by multiple cultural references made from the sedimentation of affects that punctuate his life as an artist.
