MAXIME DROUET LONGUEAU, 2023 Glass-art print mounted under a Z6100 train window 78 x 47.5 cm Slight chip in the glass on the back of the work Gift of the artist Born in 1980 in Épinay-sur-Seine, Maxime Drouet grew up in the northern suburbs of Paris. He practised graffiti intensively graffiti during the 2000s under the name Mank. Not keen on walls or wastelands, his preferred his favourite medium is the train, a source of boundless adrenaline. When Maxime Drouet paints a train and extracts When Maxime Drouet paints a train and extracts a carriage window from it, he breaks up his painted work and his paintings become abstract. Indeed, when when he removes a window or takes a photograph from the carriage, his graffiti is no longer visible or legible. The whole thing is impertinent and challenges the highly coded language of graffiti. The letter is deconstructed, the graffiti fragmented, killed off. broken up and put to death. His visual vocabulary is made up of layers of paint, sprays and drips; a painted material that more often than not completely obscures the surface of the glass. Website: www.maximedrouet.com Instagram : @maximedrouet1980