MARK GONZALes - Izrock

ANDRÉ / MR A
Andre aka Monsieur A aka Mr A is one of the most renowned French graffiti artists. The Parisian tags and paints a character in either pink or black that he firstly
created on the streets of Paris which then quickly appeared all over the world. The character is named Mr A - which Andre has chosen to represent himself on the
street. Mr A is a character with big round head, (which ended up being the body as well!) a big smiley mouth, a winking eye represented by an X on the face with
most sporting top hats.
Apart from painting Mr A on the street, Andre applied new meaning to his graffiti in 1997 by spreading love for others. He started the project “Love Graffiti”
where he would spray-paint the name of one’s lover in colourful bubble letters surrounded by many little hearts in their neighborhood.
– Wing (Via Alley)
He started to paint on the walls of Paris in 1985 and became very quickly the most active graffiti-artist in Paris. At the end of the 1980’s he was the first artist to
introduce a character (Mr. A) instead of the usual “tag name”.
Mr. A became an icon of the Parisian life that we can find on the walls as well as in collaboration with fashion designers or on the pages of magazine.
At the occasion of the exhibition “love graffiti” at the gallery “Air de Paris”, André imagined a concept that would put his talent at the service of lovers; Just like
a public writer, he paints the name of each ‘lover’ under the form of graffiti with big letter characters, turning away from the idea of graffiti that originally always
uses the same name.
Each “love graffiti” comes with a photograph and a certificate to keep the trace of this ephemeral art work.
– Artists Official Bio
www.lovegraffiti.com
www.monsieura.com
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
- Love Graffit Book