Graffiti and War! is a thirty-year story. “It’s like a passion, it takes youexplains the artist we were able to meet. You don’t do it to make a living or have a career… It’s more of a way of life. »
“The power of walls”
It is in the Normandy countryside where War! growing up in the 1990s, he chose his nickname from a Bob Marley song. “He talks about racism, slavery, colonialism. It’s linked to my teenage anger, which I realize is still present. All these questions remain relevant today. »
War! started with lettering, “but very quickly I painted characters. This is the use of the pole [surmontée d’un rouleau, pour peindre ses immenses œuvres] who guided me. » After a few years in Caen, he chose Rennes in 2009, “history of changing scenery, landscape”. He still remembers his “excitement, at the sight of all these available walls”. War! gradually repopulates the city with its giant animals: meerkats, birds, ermines, fish… which seem to challenge us.
I like finding the wall, the access, the material to graffiti. At night we are alone, everyone is sleeping, we feel privileged.
It was in his childhood, in contact with nature, that he became aware of living things and their fragility: “Scientists have been warning for a long time that the planet is finite and that we are using it as if…
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