It all starts with an encounter. The meeting is that of four artists, FKDL / M Lolo / MiNuit / Evaze and Sir, working in situ on installations in a hangar called La Réserve Malakoff.

If the first two had known each other for a long time, Le Grand 8, the celebration of Street Arts in its broadest sense, gave rise to affinities, connivances, in short, an attraction between artists. This attractiveness is crystallized by the use of very personal mediums and techniques. This was also the magic of the Grand 8, a limitless exploration of Urban Arts in their entirety. Evaze & Sir (from the collective No Rules Corp) created “Tribulation”, a poignant installation with airy suitcases, mixing wood assembly, raw material and pictorial dexterity, playing notably with drips, touches, black and white – in a word, Matter. In a break with the past, MiNuit, Dorian Rigal, light architect and digital artist, uses digital technology (his installation at La Réserve is Le Mythe de Danae). He thus works with matter and the intuition of forms by playing with light and relief. Through micro-architectures, sculptures, or simple planes, the forms are thus disturbed by movements of light, which is used here to reveal or modify the initial object, in complete opposition to Evaze & Sir, who searches for its original nature.

In the continuity of MiNuit’s work, Evaze and Sir invites Mysterious Kid, a member of the No Rules Corp collective and resident in Berlin, to create a mapping installation together, a point of convergence of two mediums that everything opposes: wood and light projection.

Alongside the apparent contrasts, there remain the unconditional detours of urban art: FKDL and M. LOLO. Emblematic figures of the Grand 8 (Liz and friends movies and M. LOLO’s cabaret), the two artists soften the borders of “Street Art” to question its contours. A fan of Art Scotch Collage created by Joseph Gil Wolman in 1963, Franck Duval alias FKDL works to revive the icons of the cinema of the 20’s and 70’s taken out of old magazines, immersing us in a glamorous universe under a tint of glossy paper. He released his book Art Scotch. While the two artists, who have been friends for a long time, are both celebrating the icons of the cinema or the performing arts for M. LOLO, their approach is quite different, but so is their style, their look, their life, their universe.

1. LOLO, a stencil artist of chiaroscuro, deploys various aesthetic, cultural and sexual paradoxes. The multiple and the unique. The dark and the bright. Decadence and purity. The street and the boudoir. He has just released his Opus délit #64 Art plastique et belles dentelles. This contrasted game is found as much in his subjects as in his technique. Using different mediums, the meeting of these artists invites the visitor to a contemplation of horizons. Actors of ruptures and influences, the artists of the Grand 8 in each of their individuality as well by the supports used as by the work of the matter, unite to present you nearly thirty works on the occasion of this collective exhibition.