Speedy Graphito biography in Biographies from the artzine on artrepublic.comGraffiti artist Speedy Graphito (real name Olivier Rizzo) is one of the pioneers of French street art. He started working on the streets of Paris in the early 80’s. His iconic stencil work has gone on to inspire future generations and remains as strong now as when he first started. His work is inspired by the world around us and in particular the barrage of advertising logos that are part of today’s consumer culture. Other influences include America of the Fifties, cartoons and Manga and images in Maya culture. His strong colours and juxtaposition of imagery is meant to make us question the iconic images he uses and the popular culture it is taken from. Recently Speedy has been executing his street art in Los Angeles and participated in the Dogtown Artists United Art Crawl in 2011. A camera crew has been following Speedy recently for a documentary about the artist’s life and work to be released December 2011. His works are found in private and public collections throughout the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Dubai and Asia Browse Prints
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