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Blek le Rat Scrawls his way into America - Los Angeles Times
HIS work has influenced Banksy, Shepard Fairey and countless street artists, but French graffiti legend Blek le Rat has remained an elusive presence in this country. To see his work, you had to either fly to Europe or catch an appearance in a handful of group shows. On Saturday, the notorious art-world pest emerges from the corners in a belated U.S. solo debut at Subliminal Projects Gallery...
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Blek le Rat's First US Solo Show at Subliminal Projects Gallery - Juxtapoz
A Pioneer of graffiti writers in Europe, Blek le Rat was one of the first people to use stencils to make public art on the street using icons instead of writing his name. He was first exposed to graffiti in...
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Blek le Rat Opens Shepard Fairey's New Subliminal Projects Gallery... - Supertouch
French street art provocateur Blek le Rat inaugurated modern street art messiah Shepard Fairey's newly relocated (and visually stunning) Subliminal Projects gallery in Echo Park this weekend with his first American solo show, "Art in not Peace but War." A groundbreaking graffiti writer in the 1980s & 90s, Blek is best known as one of the earliest pioneers of stencil art and his simple monochromatic iconography heavily influenced the street artists from the Bristol scene, most notable of which is the current art star du jour and cash register tickler, Sir Banksy, who adopted...
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Le Rat = Le Bomb - GENART Pulse
For those of you who don't follow the street art scene, Blek le Rat is the French graffiti artist who began his famed career in Paris back in the '80s and has inspired the work of everyone from Shepard Fairey to Banksy. The first images that he stenciled?...
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Fecal Face - Interview with Blek le Rat
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