BASTO #BBAST8-Fat 02, 2016 Acrylic paint and stencils on canvas stretcher 81.5 x 65 cm Gift of the artist "Born into the graffiti scene, which he started in 1989 as a member of Marseille's Oldschool and the RTM crew, Basto very quickly worked in the two most testing areas of his movement: figurative art - relegated to denial denial by an art focused on the letter and the letter alone, and abstraction - disavowed par excellence to be the prerogative of the greatest of its kind. But he was daring enough to try. In 1991, without ever abandoning walls, tags, performances, lettering and flow, all part of his daily life, he turned his attention to canvas. He is one of those who He is one of those who knows how to combine his influences from the classical masters and the fathers of his movement. In figurative art, he mixes layers, stencils, lines and effects. If the canvas is intended to be wiser, more accessible to a public Basto uses it as a message, almost as a weapon. All in gentleness and fun, in figuration or abstract codes, he brings into it all his movement, all his essence. In abstraction, he abstraction, he takes the time to use shapes, flat tints, rounded lines and colours in a skilful, sensitive harmony". sensitive harmony". Extract from the text by Valériane Mondot, Galerist Adda & Taxie Paris VIII. Website: www.basto-art.com Instagram : @basto73 Pierrick Greibill