SHUCK ONE (1970)(fr)
Title: "Diamonds Emirates"
Technique: Triptych, mixed technique paint, aerosol, acrylic and markers on 3 hard cardboard supports assembled in a single frame.
Year: 2009
Size: 45 x 4 x 93cm
Signed on the lower right and on the back
dated signed work produced in 2009 in the Gallizia workshops, Alain Dominique Gallizia is one of the greatest collectors and patrons of the urban art scene, several artists, such as Nasty, had a residency in these workshops for the great Gallizia exhibition bringing together all the emerging sizes of urban art.
This Artwork went to auction in 2016 for 2990€.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Pointe-A-Pitre in 1970, Shuck One discovered graffiti in the early 1980s through wall claims of independence in the West Indies. This flash had a driving effect that never abandoned him and that he took with him as a precious baggage to Paris, where he settled in 1984.
He immediately immersed himself in the hip-hop movement and since 1985 has dedicated himself to his most demanding discipline as a writer: the graffiti. His tags and throws made in the underground arteries of the subway are a point of reference, powerful, aggressive, committed, be they personal or collective gestures, made with his DCM-1985 group. His name is omnipresent on strategic lines 2, 9 and 13, which earned him the title of "King of the Metro".
With his activist experience stemming from various ideological battles to which he contributed in the pursuit of greater identity, carried by the city, its human diversity and its creative power, he quickly became a leading figure in the hip-hop movement. This painting is an original edition with mixed media on paper, signed and dated by hand by the artist. From a private collection.
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