NYT WORLD: Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art
By Catherine Porter
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: February 12, 2023 at 02:00AM
An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a wall. He used square bathroom tiles that resembled pixels.
Within the year, he had stuck 146 more to monuments, bridges and sidewalks.
He was cementing a mosaic to a church wall when the police arrested him for the first time. He was not caught when he stuck 10 up inside the Louvre.
“I was invading public space with a mosaic of a small character whose role is to invade,” said the artist, who goes by the street name Invader, during an interview in a private room of a gallery exhibiting his work in Paris. “I had found my thing, like the great artists who found their style.”
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By Catherine Porter
Section: World
Source: New York Times
Published Date: February 12, 2023 at 02:00AM
Mosaics by a street artist, who calls himself “Invader,” have become part of the fabric of the city. They are everywhere — if you look for them.
PARIS — It all began down a narrow cobblestone road near Place de la Bastille.An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a wall. He used square bathroom tiles that resembled pixels.
Within the year, he had stuck 146 more to monuments, bridges and sidewalks.
He was cementing a mosaic to a church wall when the police arrested him for the first time. He was not caught when he stuck 10 up inside the Louvre.
“I was invading public space with a mosaic of a small character whose role is to invade,” said the artist, who goes by the street name Invader, during an interview in a private room of a gallery exhibiting his work in Paris. “I had found my thing, like the great artists who found their style.”
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