Last February, the MUR association unveiled the MUR Bastille, its new space for artistic expression located at 38 rue de la Roquette. If the street artist Madame set the tone with a collage full of hope, Sunday, September 19, the artist Logan Hicks completed the new urban art fresco at MUR Bastille …
The 2nd MUR Bastille by Logan Hicks
New York stencil artist and screen printer known for his photorealistic works, Logan Hicks was chosen to cover the second M.U.R Bastille. 8 stencils and 5 layers later, the fascinating diptych by Logan Hicks called “Paris to New-York Portal” was finally displayed this Sunday, September 19 at 38 rue de la Roquette.
“Paris to New-York Portal”: A future Franco-American diptych
In the tradition of Victorian portraits of our dear departed ones, of which we treasured the memory of a smile in a medallion, the painter with the eye of photographer Logan Hicks has thus drawn up the portrait of his 2 cities of heart: Paris and New- York. For Cyrille Gouyette, art historian and founder of the MUR Bastille, the skull that overhangs the landscape portraits of Logan Hicks “reminds us of the truth of a passing time, the vanity of lives that are erased in cities that do not remain. Not less. At the bottom of the medallion, there is an elephant, in reference to the Elephant of the Bastille. At the heart of a baroque crown, this portrait of a Manhattan street seems lit by two symbolic torches: that of the Genie de la Bastille in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York.
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