Arts & Culture - Written by The Source on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:25 - 12 Comments
The Invader
Street art has always been an essential part of Hip-Hop culture and it’s fascinating to see where artists from around the world are taking it.
The Invader is an artist from France who goes into cities and ‘invades’ them using ceramic tiles. He’s gained notoriety amongst street artists for some time now, with his classic video game themed pieces (think Bubble Bobble on the inside of a tunnel). Now, he’s taking it up another notch by designing QR codes that can only be deciphered using readers like BeeTagg (formerly I-Matrix) on the Iphone. Trust, this ain’t your average tag.
Find out more and check out more of his pieces in the clip below.
12 Comments
BigPooh
Emiliz
The invader is cool for his art form. He is modernizing the use of mosaic form in art today. Maybe people will learn to appreciate his work a little more often.
kiki
Its great and all that this artist is using this mosaic art form or what ever you wanna call it, but going to different cities and tagging walls and stuff is not cool. Its the same as graffiti if he could tag then other up coming artisits should be able to do the same.
BIG D
interesting….but that isn’t graff. Ahhh, the sweet smell of spray paint and ink pens.
chris
This could be the future of the art.
kiki
It doesnt matter if its not graff it’s still tagging and its wrong.
bRAD
HIs work is sick…Street art is apart of Hip-Hop and we need to recognze it….INVADER ROCKS….
harlemprincess
I think the use of ceramic tiles as a new form of tagging is very creative and original but unfortunately, the Invader may not have control over where he creates his work depending on the laws of the city he “invades”. I’m not knocking his art work but vandalism is vandalism. I think his works are nice and is a major upgrade for spray paint tagging.
Ghost
He’s got a nice idea, but don’t think it would catch on like reg graff
truhoodFAMZ
Yo I love that man…his work is so dope…We need artists like this over here…
harlemprincess
This art form is very unique. I hope the invader continues to do his thing without encountering the law.
http://www.myspace.com/featuremusik to learn more…
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haha thats crazy, graf for the 21st century. To bad i aint got an iPhone