Jérôme Mesnager

Born in 1961, Jérôme Mesnager is a French artist. He entered the École Boulle in 1974, where he trained as a cabinetmaker. Five years later, he attended the comic strip classes taught by Yves Gotet and Georges Pichard at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré. In 1982, he was one of the founders of the Zig-Zag movement, a group of a dozen young artists who occupied the streets with graffiti and performance art. He was also part of the Figuration Libre movement in the early 1980s and the Parisian urban movement alongside artists such as Blek le rat, Miss.Tic and Jef Aérosol. In 1983, he created the Man in White, "a symbol of light, strength and peace", which he has reproduced all over the world, from the walls of Paris to the Great Wall of China. Off the street, his work is exhibited in institutions such as the Hôtel des Académies et des Arts in Paris in 2006.