User:Martin Parker

Martin Parker is a French-American artist been born in 1977 in Paris which lives in New York.

He embodies no doubt the new movement of urban art born in the United States closer to the situationnist art mixing installation and performance.

The bend had previously been taken by the artists Banksy, Invader, JR, Mark Jenkins and Zeus who exceeded the simple aesthetic approach of street by reinstating in Sreet Art what it had always been made: a societal and public-spirited, political dose of commitment.

Martin Parker will exchange the graffiti, his medium of preference from 1990 till 2003 for actions of using urban piracies performances or the installation in situ.

Runner of the report that a contemporary artist must know how to handle all the media at his disposal, Martin gives himself to heart enjoyment. The street stays its playground, but the used means become updated and diversify.

The misappropriation of urban signalling system in the IT hacking by way of the sticking or still the installation of street, everything is good to put the finger on what is faulty in our New World. One of its most audacious actions remains this day the misappropriation of the sign Lehman Brothers. The sign being intended to be sold by auction, it is with the complicity of the employees of the company of dismantling that he will recompose with a part letters the anagram " Heal Throes ".

The sentence will remain visible more than 2 hours on the famous building before disapear : "Nasty Urban Piracy" had been born.

Quite as for the artist JR the movement becomes little by little a movement of participative actions. The public invites little by little to be transplanted on Martin Parker's actions by realizing they even stickages or stencils resuming the big themes of the artist. He will often receive by internet interposed by the photos of actions led to the other end of the world of misappropriation of stop light or buttons of red lights by the other citizens of the world...

It is in 2012 when on returning to Paris, when he will export "Nasty Urban Piracy" in the streets of the capital by often very short-lived actions.

External Link
Martin Parker Official Blog