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Created on July 14, 2016
31 Rue de l'Amiral Bruix, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
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David Walker use de la bombe à main levée, sans aucun autre artifice, pour donner vie à de sublimes portraits de femmes. « Je ne les connais pas et elles ne savent même pas que je les peints. Si je peints des visages anonymes, c’est pour laisser le spectateur se créer sa propre histoire ». Ces visages sont crayonnés, comme raturés… Les coups de bombes épaississent le trait et le rendent encore plus vrai. Il sort de ses sprays des visages féminins sensuels et colorés, de véritables « fiancées de feu » comme il les nomme (« Bride of Fire ») sont ainsi accrochées aux murs des villes. Son style hybride, à mi-chemin entre l’illustration et le graphisme, se tourne peu à peu vers le dessin. 
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A talented portraitist born in 1976, David Walker lives in London. A representative of the graffiti movement, he creates portraits using spray paint only. No paintbrushes, no pencils, no brushes of any kind. In addition to the ephemeral works painted in the streets, his canvases are now on show in Paris, Berlin, New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Lisbon and Miami. David Walker uses the spray can exclusively, with no additional technique, in order to give life to sublime portraits of women. “I don’t know them and they don’t even know that I am painting them. If I paint anonymous faces, it is to allow the spectator to create his or her own story”. These faces are sketched, as if scratched out… Sprays from a can thicken the line, rendering it more lifelike.  And so emerge sensual and colourful female faces, veritable “Brides of Fire”, as he calls them, who are thereafter emblazoned on the walls of the cities. The hybrid style of David Walker, halfway between illustration and graphic design, is evolving and gradually turning towards drawing.

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Hunted by Noel Perez.
Pictures by Gautier JOURDAIN- Galerie Mathgoth.

Marker details

CommissionedVille de Boulogne-sur-Mer
Date created2016-07-14T22:00:00.000Z
FestivalStreet Art Boulogne-sur-Mer
Festival linkhttps://streetart.boulogne-sur-mer.fr/david-walker/
Marker typeartwork
CityBoulogne-sur-Mer
CountryFrance
What3Wordsmartini.umbrella.paddock