In the early days of 2021, a personal encounter with the prison system opened doors to a unique opportunity. Gabriella Cianciolo, a professor at the University of Cologne, extended an invitation to become a speaker in the interdisciplinary “Graffiti Art in Prison” project, aptly named GAP. Eagerly embracing the chance, our protagonist proposed taking the…

Through this experimental installation supported by Backside gallery, David Mesguich wanted to confront his past practice of vandal to his work as a contemporary artist while questioning the concept of control of beings and spaces. After two weeks of construction, interspersed with riots that he documented in Nantes, one morning, he abandoned a sculpture of…

French artist David Mesguich has been invited for the 2017 edition of the Openart Biennale in Orebro city, Sweden, where he placed an illegal street installation, a monumental male sculpture titled “Sorry not Sorry” between a large parking wall and an advertising billboard in the city center. View more details and pics after the jump (more…)

French artist David Mesguich has been pushing the boundaries between street art and fine art by creating monumental geometric sculptures that he puts within urban settings. For his most recent project, the artist created a ten meters high sculpture called ‘Lucie’ representing a little girl drawing a sun in the sky that has been installed in…

After the fresco of that he made with prisoners from Fresnes prison in 2012, David Mesguich also known as User79 recently spent some time at the Baumettes Prison in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille in France. Entitled “Self Construction” and “World Of Fence”, the French artist unveiled two strong pieces which are sure to brighten…