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Zevs (born Christophe Aguirre Schwarz on 17 November 1977 in Saverne, France) is a French street artist, best known for his trademark "liquidation" technique. He was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s.
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Zevs is an anonymous contemporary French graffiti artist best known for his Liquidation series, in which he drips paint from recognizable Western logos to transform them from the known to the unstable.
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Sep 19, 2019 · Since his early days working on the streets of Paris during the 1990s, Zevs has risen to become one of the most prominent figures on the contemporary street art scene. Zevs is best known for his trademark “liquidation” technique, in which he transforms seemingly solid images into evocatively dripping ones that are perhaps more unstable than ...
French artist Zevs critiques consumerism and taunts corporations and brands by manipulating capitalist iconography through inventive graffiti projects and billboard interventions. Zevs began his street art career with spray-painted tags and …
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Zevs (French, b.1977) is an anonymous Street artist who is well-known for his poetic drawings of shadows in Paris. He is considered to be one of the prominent pioneers of French Street Art. Noticed in the 1990s, he became an influential Graffiti artist and a tagger.
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Sep 12, 2013 · French street artist Zevs (pronounced "Zeus," like the Greek god) fearlessly appropriates logos of corporate companies for messy, irreverent works that he spray-paints in large scale on public walls and lately also shows in galleries. In some cases, his provocative approach has led to rather extreme consequences.
Aug 26, 2016 · Zevs borrows the mis-en-scène from David Hockney 's iconic painting A Bigger Splash (1967), but the geometric lines of Hockney's peaceful view are interrupted by vibrant depictions of oil oozing down into the pool from the logos of major oil companies.