Invader (artist)

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Invader (* 1969 ) is a French street artist.

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Invader is known for immortalizing characters from the game Space Invaders as mosaic pictures and hanging them all over the world. He started in 1998 in Paris , later other French cities followed, including: Aix-en-Provence , Grenoble , Montpellier , Marseille , Avignon , Rennes , Pau , Bordeaux . However, he fixed these mosaic tiles not only in France , but all over the world: Antwerp , Bern , London , Tokyo , Geneva , Rome , Berlin , Vienna , Newcastle upon Tyne , Cologne , Lausanne , Bonn , Amsterdam , New York City , Los Angeles , San Diego , Bangkok , Basel , Miami Beach, Rabat. He attached one of his works of art to the Hollywood Sign .

He plays a role in the film Exit Through the Gift Shop , together with his cousin Thierry Guetta .

literature

  • Invader, Jo Cohen-Skali: L'Invasion de Paris: Guide to the Invasion # 01. Paris / Book 01: The Genesis. 2nd Edition. L'Unité Centrale, 2009, ISBN 978-2-9520199-3-4 . (Monograph)

Web links

Commons : Invader  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Street Art Artists ( Memento July 28, 2010 on WebCite ) on Webcitation.org
  2. Invader, Jo Cohen-Skali: L'Invasion de Paris: Travel Guide of the Invasion # 01. Paris / Book 01: The Genesis. 2nd Edition. (January 2009), L'Unité Centrale, ISBN 978-2-9520199-3-4 , p. 222.
  3. ^ Ingo Clauss , Stephen Riolo, Sotirios Bahtsetzis: Urban Art: Works from the Reinking Collection . 1st edition. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2503-3 , pp. 40, 188. (exhibition catalog)
  4. space-invaders.com ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.space-invaders.com
  5. Artwork on Hollywood Sign on YouTube.com