Last Saturday I joined the opening of the second solo show of the Parisian street and graphic artist Horfee. The exhibithion named Hard Comix took place at the Gallery Celal in Paris.
“Hard Comix” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
Hard Comix series on canvas is a result of a new challenge for Horfee. Producing works indoors in a studio, he criticizes the contemporary art world, the excess of the capitalism, corruption and greed. His inspiration comes from the original pulse of his city and also from old cartoons of the 30’s that he represents between illustration and abstraction. Five hours after the opening of the show , half of the canvas were already sold, proving Horfee’s immense success.
“Escape dat shit” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“Quatre éléments” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“Skull head’s mechanics” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“Try one” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“Train 3” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“Trains mascarade” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
“This is how we do it” by Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
Horfee at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
Horfee Vernissage at Celal Gallery – Photo Fernanda Hinke
Horfee started to work on the streets of Paris 12 years ago. He have been writing his name on walls, trains, trucks and roofs all over the world and his work is considered to be the most innovating and original graffiti in the world at the moment. With a unique style mixing typography and illustration, he loves bombing (or “BOMB-BING” as he calls it) in a “dubs” (style of make graffiti very quickly). But even with this underground attitude in his blood he also attended the “celebre” École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Graffiti by Horfee
Photo by Demian Smith – Alternative Paris
Graffiti by Horfee
Photo by Demian Smith – Alternative Paris
Graffiti by Horfee
Photo by Demian Smith – Alternative Paris
Last June in company of Demian Smith, we interviewed and recorded Horfee while he was making a wall with the British artist Sickboy in the eighteenth arrondissement in Paris, a wall arranged by Alternative Paris. Moment that we understood his point of view as a graffiti artist working between freely on the streets and for galleries. “The way that street art evolved gave us an opportunity to live from it without transforming what is the base, the base for us (me and my friends) is street graphic as a discipline, just putting your name out in the streets. Beside you are free to be an illustrator, and show your art with the same name that you sign on the streets inside galleries.”, Horfee explained us.
Horfe (left) & Sickboy (far right) stand in front of their painting at the eighteen arrondissement in Paris Photo by Demian Smith – Alternative Paris
Horfee & Sickboy work at eighteen arrondissement in Paris
Photo by Demian Smith – Alternative Paris
The show Horfee Hard Comix will run until December first at the Gallery Celal. For more information click here. Our video interview with Horfee and takes from this amazing show will come soon!
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