Hombre SUK

Self-Portrait by HOMBRE (Skribble)

Hombre SUK (* 6. October 1981 in Mannheim as Pablo Fontagnier ) is a German graffiti artist .

biography

Pablo Fontagnier grew up with his younger brother Mikis in Mannheim, the son of Gerhard Fontagnier, a local politician of a local branch of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . After primary school he first attended the Kurpfalz-Gymnasium, which he left without a degree. With his general school education he was accepted at the Academy for Communication in Mannheim after his community service . There he completed his training as a graphic designer (focus: illustration).

Hombre currently lives with his son in Nuremberg.

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Swiss HipHop Jam 2015 (Zurich)

In 1995 he devoted himself to the paint can for the first time and began with classic style writing until he finally devoted himself to painting characters (figures). Since then he has been working with the spray can as well as with pixels and bites, which in this combination has been decisive for his style.

style

In the course of his career, Hombre developed a style on the can that is particularly evident in his comic and cartoon-like style. In addition to numerous comic adaptations, Hombre also uses a more realistic style, which is nevertheless characterized by the painting of characters and is classically created with the can. Sometimes Hombre mixes both techniques in this type of work. As the inspiration for his technique, he sees himself as a “child of the 80s”, which is also regularly shown in the motifs of his work. As one of the first graffiti artists to deal with characters, he moved away from the exclusively black outlines (borders). As a color for his outlines, he chose, in contrast to the then common technique, a darker, graduated tone compared to his fillings. His style is characterized by reduced forms, hard edges and a special sense for the play of light and shadow.

Hombre is one of the leading character painters on the graffiti scene at home and abroad.

The artist has now been able to show his work in cities such as Berlin, Bilbao, Eindhoven, Jerusalem, Moscow, New York, Shanghai, Warsaw and Zurich.

He was invited to workshops in cities such as Sofia (Bulgaria). There he worked on behalf of Sprite (Coca-Cola Company).

In 2014 he developed his own eyewear collection with the Eschenbach company based on the theme of "graffiti".

In November 2014, Hombre painted a mural for the former Bundesliga club SV Waldhof Mannheim (Pro Waldhof fan association) , which depicts the various nationalities active in the club. As a symbol for sociodiversity, the association chose six real people from its sphere of activity. The project aims to promote more tolerance.

As part of the annual art exhibition Deltabeben (City of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen), which takes place in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Hombre designed a wall for the Kunstverein Mannheim in 2016 . In January 2019, the artist also designed a red Setra bus as a mobile children's library for the Mannheim City Library with the comic animal motifs crocodile, ibex and pelican as wrapping . Previously, Hombre had already sprayed figuratively the outer facade of the Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium (LFG) in Mannheim and a local medical center in the Käfertal district.

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Since its inception, Hombre has been part of the Mannheim-based True Rokin 'Soul Crew (TRS crew). He was later accepted into the Stick Up Kids (SUK) crew . The SUK crew is one of the best known crews from Germany. Members of the SUK include Can2 , Wow123 , MadC and AtomOne .

From March 2016, Hombre began a collaboration with the Swiss artist Boogie SML . From now on, joint projects will officially be carried out under the pseudonym Homboog . Both artists have already worked increasingly together in the past and so, among other things, in the summer of 2015 with the project "Stadt.Wand.Kunst" of the old fire station of the city of Mannheim, a large house facade in the Benjamin-Franklin-Village (former US barracks in Mannheim -Käfertal ).

The artists have been friends with each other for several years.

Web links

• Hombre's Facebook page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.swr.de/swr2/kultur-info/kultur-regional-open-air-street-art-museum-mannheim/-/id=9597116/did=16065248/nid=9597116/yvohsh/index .html
2. ↑ https://www.br.de/puls/themen/popkultur/hombre-suk-kuenstler-graffiti-streetart-100.html
3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://graffiti.bg
5. ↑ https://www.montana-cans.com/montana-blog/2014/07/18/humphreys-x-hombre/
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ http://www.morgenweb.de/mannheim/fotostrecken/waldhof-graffiti-am-bruckenpfeiler-1.1987015
8. ↑ http://www.pro-waldhof.de/aktivitaten/streetart_graffiti
9. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ https://www.mannheim.de/nachrichten/deltabebenregionale-2016-kuenstlerische-vielfalt-im-mannheimer-kunstverein-port25-und-ku
12. ^ A rolling library in fire red by Christian Hoffmann at www.morgenweb.de ( Mannheimer Morgen ), January 30, 2019
13. ↑ http://www.creativetempest.com/graffiti/stick-up-kids/
14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated October 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ https://vimeo.com/137252024
16. ↑ http://www.stadt-wand-kunst.de/die-idee/