A Delicate Balance

Shepard Fairey, alias OBEY, is an American artist, serigraph, fresco and illustrator. 
 
Coming from the skateboard scene, he first became known by the stickers André the Giant Has in Posse, who gave the campaign Obey Giant. His work became world famous during the 2008 US presidential campaign, with the creation of Barack Obama's HOPE poster that will become an image-icon of the campaign. The Boston Institute of Contemporary Art considers him to be one of the best-known, best and most influential street artists of the moment. 
 
Fresco, produced in June 2016, a few months after the international summit of the COP21 (climate conference) in Paris in 2015, it is called "Dedicate Balance" and is part of the series "Earth Crisis" Ecological emergency. 
 
60, rue Jeanne d'Arc. Curated by Itinerrance Gallery