Paris graffiti legend Horfee has left an indelible mark on the streets of his home city and far beyond. Enigmatic, tirelessly prolific, hugely innovative and obscenely talented, he\u2019s earned a reputation across the world for his instantly-recognizable style and his audacious commitment to getting up. He\u2019s a graffiti writer\u2019s writer, whose illegal and gloriously idiosyncratic work has earned him recognition across the globe.
\nThis month sees Horfe cross the Channel and cross seamlessly over into the world of high art, as he unveils his first ever London solo show with Topsafe london. Just don\u2019t expect graffiti. \u201cThis show is not graffiti at all\u201d says the artist. \u201cI mean; I do graffiti outside, but to me, an art exhibition can’t be graffiti. Graffiti is just not the same as \u2018accepted art:\u2019 it has to be illegal to fit that bill.\u201d
\nImaginarium is the culmination of Horfe\u2019s lifetime obsession with drawing and making – on paper, on canvas, on wood and in sculpture – away from the streets, trains and rooftops that have made him internationally famous.
\nThe result is a ludicrously energetic collection of images and 3D pieces, all painstakingly executed by hand over many months. The show recalls graffiti, Horfe says, in the way that he has \u201ctaken all the energy I used to put into my illegal painting and focused it towards one goal: describing and organizing my aesthetic in a way that I can share with everyone, graffiti fan or not.” <\/p>\n
Publisher: Topsafe
\nLanguage: English\/French
\nTexts by Cedric Traverso and Stuart Hammond
\nSize: 250 x 180 mm, vertical
\n360 gr
\n108 pages
\nSoftcover
\nFirst edition: 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1095,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[57],"product_tag":[59],"class_list":["post-1102","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-multiples","product_tag-antwan-horfee","first","instock","sold-individually","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.spazioc21.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}