Nemo (artist)

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Nemo on rue du Chat qui Pêche, Paris, 5th arr. , 2010

Nemo (* 1947 ; † September 15, 2021 in Paris ) was the pseudonym of a French graffiti and stencil artist in Paris. The main motif of his murals is the black gentleman .

Works

Nemo, real name Serge Fauri and a computer scientist by profession , has been using stencils to bring his pictures in Paris since the 1980s - similar to the British Banksy later with his stencils in Bristol and London - preferably on old and damaged walls and on bricked-up doors and windows. In his works, the black silhouette of a man in a coat and hat always appears , along with his accessories such as a balloon and umbrella in red, along with a signed oneblack suitcase and black cat. Individual motifs were often repeated in different places and adapted to the respective local contexts. The Silhouette occasionally rides a bike or loses its skis in the snowstorm.

The family man Fauri began in 1982 to decorate his son's way to school in Belleville - Ménilmontant in Paris with wall paintings; around 1990 he designed his “bonhomme noir”, the black gentleman . In the 1990s Nemo stayed in Bogotá and Lisbon , where there have also been wall works by him since then.

Occasionally Nemo worked with the painter Jérôme Mesnager and had his white jointed doll figures “meet” the black gentleman . In some places in Paris, the black silhouette in a hat and coat with a balloon can also be found in harmony with an exotic animal by the graffiti artist Mosko.

He died in Paris on September 15, 2021.

reception

Antanas Mockus , Colombian philosopher and mayor of Bogotá from 1995 to 1997, described the work of Nemo in 1999 as a “challenge through modesty”: “Nemo seeks an irretrievably delicate and temporary relationship from person to person, but emphasizes the altruism, the free nature of the Relationship. ”In 2006, the French writer Daniel Pennac recognized in Nemo's Paris works their“ movement, lightness and openness ”, which opened up a space into which the gaze could fly up and away.

literature

Web links

Commons : Works by Nemo  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Street Art: Adieu, Nemo. In: menil.info. September 16, 2021, accessed on September 19, 2021 (French, obituary): "Nemo nous a quittés ce mercredi 15 septembre."
  2. ↑ a b c E 'morto Nemo, colosso della street art. A lui si deve la grande svolta poetica dei murales. In: stilearte.it. September 15, 2021, accessed on September 19, 2021 (Italian): “A Parigi è morto Nemo, al mondo Serge Fauri. Era nato nel 1947 "
  3. ^ Nemo: Cyclists, rue Saint Jacques, Paris
  4. ^ Nemo: Snow Flurry, Paris
  5. ↑ Monique Y. Wells: Stencil Art - A Form of Graffiti? at: Bonjour Paris (accessed October 11, 2011)
  6. ↑ Nemo and Mesnager, 5th arr. Paris
  7. ↑ Nemo and Giraffe by Mosko, Paris
  8. ^ Disparition du street artiste Nemo, enchanteur du XXe arrondissement de Paris. In: lefigaro.fr . September 16, 2021, accessed September 19, 2021 (French).
  9. ↑ “Nemo souligne la possibilité de l'interpeller avec modestie, désarticulant les ordres de grandeur mentionnés, à l'exception peut-être de l'ordre civique. Nemo cherche un lien irrémédiablement précaire et transitoire, de personne à personne, mais qui accentue le côté désintéressé, le caractère gratuit de la relation. ”(Antanas Mockus: Nemo, l'autre maire de Bogotá , 1999 ) (Accessed October 12 2011)
  10. ^ "Il n'y a que du mouvement là-dedans, du mouvement, de la légèreté, de l'ouverture. C'est un espace en expansion. le regard s'envole. De l'air, enfin de l'air! "( Nemo par Pennac , 2006; quoted from Blog Culturel [1] ) (Accessed October 12, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Nemo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fauri, Serge (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French graffiti and stencil artist
BIRTH DATE 1947
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2021