Ash (artist)

Ash (artist)

:"This article is about the street artist, for the rock band see Ash (band)

Ash also called Victor Ash is originally a street artist from Paris France.
He started his artistic carrier as a graffiti writer in the early 80ts and from 1983 to 1986 he also called himself Saho and Ash2.
Ash was part of the legendary parisian graffiti collective BBC or Badbc with JayOne and Skki, they are now considered as pioneers in the European graffiti movement with Bando, Mode2, Jonone.
Inspired from the New york city subway graffiti styles, they where the first wave of street artists in europe before Banksy or Zevs.
In 1989 The french fashion designer Agnès b. invited Ash, Jonone, Jayone, Skki and a few more graffiti writers to take part in the exhibition "Les peintres de la ville" at the Galerie du Jour situated in the neighborhood of Beaubourg in Paris, it was the first time Ash was showing his paintings inside a gallery.
Ash works are documented in several graffiti books like Spraycan Art from Henry Chalfant and more recently in the documentary film BOMB IT.


Shows and projects

june 2008, series of wall paintings at the VM Bjerget in Copenhagen, a new building designed by Bjarke ingels Group / BIG. Ørestad, Copenhagen new town, Denmark.

In 2007 Ash participated to the Backjumps exhibition in Berlin where he realized the work called astronaut / cosmonaut on a wall of a typical Kreuzberg building in the centre of Berlin.

References

* [http://www.victorash.net/articles/ash-artikel.pdf interview in Potilitken Denmark] .
* [http://www.kopenhagen.dk/interviews/interviews/interview_victor_ash Interview about the VM Bjerget project] .
* [http://www.kopenhagen.dk/interviews/interviews/ash_interview_backjumps_the_live_issue2 Interview at www.kopenhagen.dk] .
* [http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2007/0818/berlin/0043/index.html Ash at Backjumps 2007]
* [http://www.oravis.dk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=489&Itemid=526 Ash at oravis painting at VM bjerget]

Further reading

*Paris art libre dans la ville, Yvan Tessier, Éditions Hersher, 1991, ISBN 2-500-28469-5
*Paris Tonkar, Tarek ben Yakhlef et Sylvain Doriath, Editions Florent Massot et Romain Pillement, 1991, ISBN 2-908382
*Spraycan Art, Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, Thames and Hudson, 1987, ISBN 0-500-27469-X
*La rue aux artistes, MPG Art, editions Guillaume Garouste Ategalore, 2004, ISBN 2-9523191-0-3

External links

* [http://www.backjumps.org/ Backjumps]
* [http://www.bombit-themovie.com/ BOMB IT Movie]
* [http://www.graffiti.org/index/artists.html/ graffiti.org]


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