About the artwork
Created tag-style with spray cans and posca crayons, this dense composition features Chanoir's famous humanized cats. While his name or part of it appears several times on the canvas, the artist titles the work in reference to both this blaze and the green cat in the foreground. Voluntarily apolitical, the artist prefers to reveal a plastic aesthetic rather than choose commitment like most other urban artists.
Expert opinion
Thanks to his many collaborations and his instantly recognizable cats, Chanoir is undoubtedly one of the leading artists on the urban scene.
About the artist
Born in Bogota in 1976, Chanoir, whose real name is Alberto Vejarano, is a French-Colombian urban artist and designer who lives and works mainly in Paris. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2002, and went on to found the Collectif 1980, bringing together artists such as Alexandre Sirvin, Jean-Philippe Illanes, Hugo Garcia and Ernest Añaños Montoto. Chanoir's art is apolitical, graphic and expressive. Ailurophile, his productions are essentially representations of cats. His name, Chanoir, itself stems from this associated passion, with a reference to Théophile Alexandre Steinlen's famous cabaret poster Le Chat Noir. Several of his works can be found in the permanent collection of Bogotá's Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO). In 2009, he took part in the "Né dans la rue" exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, where he presented several works. He also collaborates with numerous brands such as Cacharel in 2011 and Samsung in 2012, as well as with department stores such as Galeries Lafayette in 2013.
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