JEF AEROSOL "The legend of Street Art"

About Jef Aerosol:

Jean-François Perroy, better known under the pseudonym Jef Aérosol, born in Nantes on January 15, 1957, is a French stencil artist from the first wave of “street art” (urban art) of the 1980s. He painted his first stencil in Tours in 1982. He remains one of the pioneers and leaders of this ephemeral art. Many younger artists claim his influence. Jef often creates portraits of personalities like Elvis Presley, Gandhi, Lennon, Hendrix, Basquiat, Amalia Rodrigues, Dylan... but a large part of his work is devoted to the anonymous people of the street: musicians, passers-by, beggars, children whose lives he paints. life-size silhouettes, in black and white, always highlighted with his famous and mysterious red arrow, the artist's second signature and “trademark”. Jef Aérosol has painted on the walls of many cities: Paris, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Île de Ré, Orléans, Tours, London, Lisbon, Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Brussels, Zurich, Beijing, Tokyo , Palermo, Dublin, Belfast, Ljubljana… He even stuck his now legendary Sitting Kid on the Great Wall of China.