C215

<div>C215 is now considered one of the most beautiful promises of French street art.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>After having become famous outside of our borders in the streets of the world and in the galleries of Sao Paulo, New York and London, the French public finally had the opportunity to see a beautiful retrospective of his work at Pierre Cardin Gallery in September 2009.&nbsp;<br>C215 travels around the world, leaving on its way contextual stencils in the streets. He painted street scenes as well as portraits of homeless, beggars, refugees, orphans, all those left behind by capitalist society.&nbsp;<br>His works are placed on non-places, devalued supports: rusty doors, broken or burnt walls, garbage cans, etc. Each stencil is conceived and created according to the place, and carved on the spot ad hoc, so as to blend in its environment and interact with its inhabitants&nbsp; .Curated by Itinerrance Gallerie Paris&nbsp;</div>

The cat mural by Christian Guemy aka C215

<div>One of the biggest pieces of C215 in Vitry , there s also Jace with his Gouzou on the same wall</div>

Woman wall

<div>C215 for 'Cities of Hope' festival, Manchester, England.</div>

C215 - 'Cities of Hope'.

<ul><li>Artist: <strong>C215 </strong>(https://www.facebook.com/c215stencils/)</li><li>Photo made by: <strong>irRIT'ARTE</strong> (https://www.instagram.com/irritarte https://www.facebook.com/Irritarte/)</li><li>Org.: <strong>Lisbon Street Art Tours </strong>(https://www.facebook.com/Lisbonstreetartto</li></ul><div><br></div>

C215 Lisboa

THE CLOWN

Untitled

<div>Hidden on a crossing at Oranienstraße / Adalberstraße, just at a turkish snack bar, the girl is watching the daily traffic jam...</div>

girl at the crossing

Indigo

<div>an old wall with many faces done by C215 and a stencil done by Indigo (Female Canadian artist)</div>

C215 wall 

<div>8 Street artists invited by the Nanterre university for her 50 th year bday&nbsp;</div>

Under the streetart Le Louvre 

<div>C215 stencil cat (Back Piccadilly / Paton St)&nbsp;</div>

C215 Cat 

<ul><li>Artist: <strong>C215 </strong>(https://www.facebook.com/c215stencils/)</li><li>Photo made by: <strong>irRIT'ARTE</strong> (https://www.instagram.com/irritarte https://www.facebook.com/Irritarte/)</li><li>Org.: <strong>Lisbon Street Art Tours </strong>(https://www.facebook.com/Lisbonstreetarttours)</li></ul><div><br></div>

Borondo

Vexta

Mr Chat

David walker

Alice Pasquini

<div>Just go in and out the place you ll find few stencils of C215 , he lived not far , and some others great artists with beautiful pieces&nbsp;</div>

various artists

<div>Pierre and Marie Curie wall , during a serie, C215 done at the CEA (Atomic Energy center) where he putted many stencils through the center about various scientists and done also an exhibition in Paris Science Museum.</div>

Scientist

<div>A wall in Paris Suburb city done by Christian Guemy aka C215&nbsp; ,wall curated by Mathgoth Gallerie Paris&nbsp;</div>

Wall

<div>C 215 just started a serie through Paris XIII area about sportsmen&nbsp;</div>

Sports men serie 

<div>This stencil is a portrait of a witness of the dramatic attack againt Charlie Hebdo.&nbsp;</div>

Portrait de Sigolène Vinson

<div>Mother and Child done with the Galérie-Itinérance<br><br>Update 22/07/2022</div>

Mother and Child

Karel Janssenslaan (2017)

@c215

<div>C215 has left dozens of his quick pieces, this one is in good conditions, painted on a junction box in direction to the river Spree.</div>

woman / portrait

<div>C215's amazing stencil work in Istanbul</div>

Kaïrostraat (2017)

<div>The alleyways of Trastevere are the veins of Rome. Here, there is always a tavern or craft shop to visit, there are always card games played on street corners, and the exuberant style and culture of the district (now considered the “Historic Centre”) is manifested in its street art.<br><br></div><div>The street art in Trastevere is much more spontaneous than the rest of the street art throughout Rome, because the historic buildings of the district are considered “cultural heritage” and are therefore protected by architectural constraints that make it very difficult to obtain the necessary authorizations to intervene with large murals.</div><div><br>Perfect playground for small interventions like posters, stickers and stencils. French artist C215 world has visited Rome several times and left his artworks across the city. His works shine the spotlight on ‘characters of the street’ and the ‘overlooked or invisible people in society’ – animals, street kids, smokers, the homeless, refugees, and lovers. His street art pieces are meant to change, degrade, and transform over time. They are designed to be destroyed or forgotten.<br>This work at the entrance of this sparkling district shows that love conquers all, even during a global pandemic.</div><div><br><br></div>

Kitten

Unkown

Medusa

<div>C215 Cat inside the Ezra Grill Bar/Restaurant&nbsp;</div>

<div>C215 (Christian Guémy) in Sète, locations:<br>- Rue Frédéric Mistral<br>- Ruelle des députés</div>

C215 in Sète

<div>One stencil in the overwhelming &nbsp; at Haus Schwarzenbergs backyard. You need some time to explore all!</div>

door-girl

<div>ARTURb 2012 organized by LAC (Laboratório de Actividades Criativas)</div>

<div><a href="http://www.street-art-avenue.com/street-artist/c215">http://www.street-art-avenue.com/street-artist/c215</a></div>

C215 Rue Fondère

Maria & Jesus

<div>📍 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pdvstreetart/">Festival Points de Vue</a>, Bayonne (France)</div>

Alf & Gremlins

Little cat

<div>Realized in 2017 by C215 for the "Street Générations 40 ans d’art urbain" exposition organized by la Condition Publique.</div>

Chat (Cat)

Je Suis Charlie

Volare

Good Vibes

Amazigh Bride

<div><strong>Impressionist painter</strong>, friend of Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, he is recognized from 1883 when his style starts evolving towards representations with more precise contours. A small feminine portrait of his hand is on display at the Saint-Léger museum of Soissons.</div>

Pierre Auguste Renoir 

@dface_official

word to mother

Hush

Carrie Reichard

<div>The "TITUS SPQR" portrait shows the face of the Roman emperor Titus Vespasian that C215 took from the Titus Flavius​​Vespasianus statue kept in the Braccio Nuovo, Chiaramonti Museum of the Vatican Museums. Better known simply as Titus, he was the 10th Roman emperor, belonging to the Flavian dynasty. He was a skilled and respected general who distinguished himself for the suppression of the rebellion in Judea of ​​70, during which the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. He is known for his public works program in Rome and his generosity in helping the population following two disastrous events: the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and the fire in Rome in 80.&nbsp;</div><div><br>&nbsp;The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 - which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, and has caused very serious damage to the cities and communities around the Gulf of Naples, and a disastrous fire that broke out in Rome the following year, allowed Tito to show his generosity: in both cases, he contributed with his wealth to repair the damage and alleviate the suffering of the population. These episodes and the fact that no death sentence was passed during his principality, earned him the appellation among contemporary historians of "delight of the human race" (Ausonio then resized this appellation by claiming, in Caesar, Titus, that the principality of Titus was rather "happy in its brevity"). He visited Pompeii immediately after the disastrous eruption, and again the following year. For his generosity and the substantial agreement with the Senate, he was considered a good emperor by Tacitus and other contemporary historians.<br><br>The French-born artist Christian Guémy, known as C215, is currently considered one of the best stencil artists around. He has been producing street art for about twenty years through paintings, drawings, and stencils, experimenting with surfaces of all sizes: from mailboxes to old abandoned doors to huge walls of buildings. He started using spray painting techniques in 2005 and his attention was focused on creating portraits of people: the elderly, children, refugees, beggars, that category of people we often forget to recognize in life.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;Guémy 's production was not limited solely to the marginalized and the unknown. In recent years C215 has made several interventions that recall missing journalists or figures of famous people from history, or even stencil representations of Renaissance art. Fascinated by the paintings of Caravaggio and Ernst Pignon, he tries to interact with the urban context by reflecting in his works the feelings that are hidden behind a glance.</div><div><br></div><div>C215 participated in the Au-delà du street art exhibition at the Musée de La Poste in Paris: his works were exhibited alongside those of Banksy, Invader, and Shepard Fairey.</div>

"TITUS SPQR"

<div><strong>Made famous by the lyricism of his poems</strong>, member of the French Academy, he entered politics starting from 1830. During the Revolution of 1848, he became part of the Provisional Government. In particular, he signed the Decree to Abolish Slavery in the French Colonies on April 27, 1848.</div>

Alphonse de Lamartine 

<div><strong>Saint-Just was a boarder in Soissons</strong> from 1779 to 1785 at the Saint-Nicolas des Oratoriens Collège (now Saint-Just Collège), a renowned establishment where his uncle and father had already studied. <strong>Exalted by the Revolution</strong>, he bound himself to Robespierre alongside whom he took the fall. He died on the scaffold.</div>

Louis Antoine de Saint Just

<div>C215, a famous French street artist, gives Padua a small cameo (an unknown subject) which unfortunately was ruined by vandals.</div>

<div><strong>Founder of realistic painting</strong>, politically active, he took an active part in the Paris Commune (1871) becoming director of the Fine Arts. Exiled to Switzerland, however, he still becomes quite successful throughout Europe. The Saint-Léger museum of Soissons displays a Landscape painted by Courbet in 1873.</div>

Gustave Courbet

Le graffeur ! -- Crimes of minds --

Jaune

<div>Project: The Crystal Ship 2017 -&gt; C215<br>Project: <a href="https://thecrystalship.org/nl/homepage-nederlands/">The Crystal Ship 2023</a> -&gt; Jaune<br><br> C215 is een fenomeen en grote naam in de street art. De Fransman is al meer dan 20 jaar bezig met zijn vak en hij wordt dan ook tot de top der stencil-artiesten gerekend. De ware kracht van streetart schuilt in de perfecte plaats vinden voor je kunst, vindt C215. Hij kiest niet zomaar wat mensen uit voor zijn doordringende en kleurrijke portretten, maar schildert vaak ouderen, bedelende kinderen en vluchtelingen – steeds in fiere en dappere poses – omdat net zij te weinig gezien worden in onze samenleving.&nbsp;<br>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br> C215 is a true phenomenon and a big name in street art. This Frenchman has been active in his field for over 20 years and he is therefore considered as one of the top stencil artists. According to C215 the true power of street art lies in finding the perfect place for one’s art. He also does not choose people randomly for his penetrating and colourful portraits, but he often paints the elderly, or begging children and refugees. C215 feels they are not visible enough in our society and he always depicts them in proud and brave poses.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Three beautiful stencils of C215.</div>

Girl

<div><strong>The Maid of Orleans</strong> had a short stay in Soissons in 1429, after the coronation of King Charles VII in Reims. The following year, abandoned by her troops, she was denied access to the city. <strong>Captured in Compiegne</strong>, she was sold to the English in 1430 by the Count de Ligny.</div>

Jeanne d’Arc

Rwandais

Hommage Marie Curie

Chat

<div><strong>A young teacher in Paris</strong>, she adhered to revolutionary movements. <strong>Captured during the Paris Commune</strong>, she was deported to New Caledonia in 1873. She stayed there for 7 years. Back in France, she resumed her militant activities and became a revolutionary figure, an anarchist and a feminist.</div>

Louise Michel

<div>📍 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pdvstreetart/">Festival Points de Vue</a>, Bayonne (France)<br><br></div>

LGBT

<div>This <strong>Dutch painter</strong> born in Utrecht also works in Italy and France. At the Museum of Soissons, <strong>a child portrait</strong> signed by his hand is dated 1637.
<br>On this picture is <strong>the little dog</strong>, attentive to the orders of his young mistress. He is a metaphor for good education.</div>

Le Chien de Johan Cornelisz Van Loenen

<div><strong>The Crepin and Crépinien shoemakers</strong> made shoes for the poor. Christians from Rome, they preached in Soissons but were arrested and martyred. Their worship has long been popular as evidenced by the churches built in their honor and the sculptures of the two saints at the Saint-Léger museum.
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Saint Crépin et Saint Crépinien

<div>C215 for 'Cities of Hope' festival, Manchester, England.<br>Building has been demolished &nbsp;</div>

'Cities of Hope'

<div>Despite his pacifist positions, his age and his health problems, this writer voluntarily enlisted in the infantry from the beginning of the Great War. His novel, The Fire, <strong>Prix Goncourt 1916</strong>, recounts his battles on the front line in the Soissonais.</div>

Henri Barbusse

The Old Lady and her Cat

<div>post box painted on the 3 sides with a portrait of an old man&nbsp; . &nbsp;</div>

Painted Post Box

<div>The work is on the territory of Artplay Design Centre</div>

Two women 

<div>French singer and comedian Renaud</div>

French singer and comedian Renaud

<div>C215&nbsp; makes a mural for "CNAM"</div>

CNAM

<div>French-born artist Christian Guémy, known as C215, is currently considered one of the best stencil artists around. He has been producing street art for about twenty years through paintings, drawings, and stencils, experimenting with surfaces of all sizes: from mailboxes to old abandoned doors to huge walls of buildings. He started using spray painting techniques in 2005 and his attention was focused on creating portraits of people: the elderly, children, refugees, beggars, that category of people we often forget to recognize in life.</div><div><br>&nbsp;His production was not limited solely to the marginalized and the unknown. In recent years C215 has made several interventions that recall missing journalists or figures of famous people from history, or even stencil representations of Renaissance art. Fascinated by the paintings of Caravaggio and Ernst Pignon, he tries to interact with the urban context by reflecting in his works the feelings that are hidden behind a glance.</div><div><br>&nbsp;C215 participated in the Au-delà du street art exhibition at the Musée de La Poste in Paris: his works were exhibited alongside those of Banksy, Invader, and Shepard Fairey.</div>

Peace

<div><strong>Actor of theater and cinema</strong>, he is one of the principal stars of the 1950s. His youth, his beauty and his charisma earned him an international reputation. <strong>In the theater, with Jean Vilar</strong>, he assured a huge popular success in the classical repertoire. He died prematurely of a devastating cancer.</div>

Gérard Philipe 

<div><strong>Survivor of concentration camps</strong>, she is noted in the political environment by <strong>her beliefs</strong>. Her name is attached to the law that decriminalized abortion on January 17, 1975. Soissons owes her the <strong>construction of the new hospital in 1977</strong>.</div>

Simone Veil

<div><strong>Wealthy heir</strong> of the famous American banker John Pierpont Morgan, this lover of France <strong>helped the people of Aisne</strong> particularly affected by the Great War. In 1917, she and her friend Anne Murray Dike created the <strong>American Committee for Devastated Regions (CARD)</strong>.</div>

Anne Morgan

<div>This portrait of a young romantic-looking girl, made <strong>after an old postcard</strong>, is the first work of C215 in Soissons. In June 2017, with the theft of the door, the work was gone. On the powder magazine of the Arsenal, it is again in the spotlight on the site of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.
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