November 2012 - Issue 11

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NadaOneOrganic meets Mechanic Exclusive portrait of the Swiss Graffiti artist. p.13

Do your own stencil art with a spray can, a cutter and a cardboard !

T u t o r i a l The writers behindthe West Coast crew.

AM7

2 November 2012 A summer’s painting session with friends in the swiss german side. Zurich Train Station / Switzerland - 2011

A ged of 36 years old NadaOne paint his passion of Graffiti and Street Art around all the Europe and aboard.

He is the representative of 3 importants and respected Graffiti crews, in 1998 he joined the rank of tone of the most known US team based in Los Angeles, the “AM7”. In 2007 his faithful friend WAF added him to the oldest Belgian crew “Team Alosta”.

After the summer 2011 he had finished 2 huge and main walls in his city of birth, Aigle in Switzerland to commemorate his 20 years of Swiss representative and lo-cal Graffiti writer.

After have seen the works on his Face-book profile, those old friends KONGO and LAZOO invited him to join the ranks of one of the most respected and known french crew around the globe, the MAC.

“Graffiti was ment to be seen, not understood”

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Tell me more about your work ?

My works are a mix of big teethed monsters, black guy reapers, 3D Graffiti letterings and photorealistic paintings.

I like to develop unique and original concepts for my professional side, to give me limits to reach and break and to push forwards all the possibilities that my spray can can give me.

I like to sketch on flash idea, dreams, or just by taking a sheet of paper, sketching on it and imagine how this idea will be on wall, think about the colors, the effects, the result.

Everything fits of oneself once I take the spray in hand and I draw the first outline.

What are you currently working on ?

I work now on visuals, canvases and fiberglass sculptures for various solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, China and United Kingdom.

Tell me about your work space and your creative process.

Street and walls are my work space, no need to have an atelier to do my paintings. The city and its concrete walls are my playground..

I like to draw on a corner of a table with a coffee or directly in my sketchbook, and most of the time in all that can be a sheet of paper…envelopes, napkins, bills…

Some of my good friends can tell you that I’m a real maniac about the concept and the perfection of my paintings, for me a painting

not done like that is a worst of time, energy and money.

I create something from scratch, from an sudden idea, a dream or a flash and I want this idea to be exactly what I have inside of my head, just better.

When I make a look to a wall I can see where I will place my letters, my characters or the entire concept, all these infos just need to be pushed out of my head and propelled by the spray can via my hand and my index.

How is this different from past projects ?

It is different from Graffiti painting on walls and in the street most often outside because.

I will present those works in a closed spaces and onto different format, big sized sculptures will be also a big part of the exhibitions.

I want to show some ideas stocked in my head and have them in 3 dimensions, to play and paint on it.

Interview for InPrint Magazine - Issue 6 (2012) Pictures by NadaOne

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“If it is Art, it is not for all, if it is for all, it is not Art”

Mural painting / Hair Salon Limpopo Madison Avenue & 42th Street, New York City, USA - 2010

Mural painting / Private customer Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland - 2010

6 November 2012From left to right: Details of the Olympic Swimming Pool

Exterior Walls / Aigle, Switzerland - 2011

What statement do you hope to make ?

Leave a trace of my passage here to promote urban art in a maximum of places and to a large range of people. It’s my true passion, my own religion.

”What is Art?”

Art is so many things for me, it’s a lifestyle, a wife, a passion as strong as to make love, it’s also an angel or a demon, a lot of tools,

odors, dirts, pain sometimes, joy, sharing intense moments of creation with other writers.

For people and friends who follow and know me it’s the ideas, the concepts, the colors, the details and the energy added in my works.

What was the best advice given to you as an artist ?

Never look back and follow your instinct, never pay attention on the things that other people tell you to do,

nor all that is “in”, “trend” or “fashion”. Just do your stuff it is the purest and real thing that represents you and your work…

Be your own master and critique, play and belive in your instinct, never follow the herd ! If I were to follow you around to see art in California, which places would we go ? I’m pretty new here and I don’t have too many

paintings done in California, my principal painted walls are located in the Clover Artistic Space (an old painting factory relocated in artistic space) and in my showroom in North Hollywood (Bellaire Avenue) Where do you go online for good art resources, whether to find a new artist, or to see what is going on in the art world locally and otherwise ?

I love to randomly stumble (Stumble Upon), within art and design categories to see what who will appears. The artistic website are now legion and surfing for hours can let you

see some beautiful works, amazing skills and talented artists from all over the world.

Do you illustrate full time ? If not, what else do you do ? Not full time, I wait the good moment to draw something or to put an idea in a paper sheet…it’s never scheduled or planned.When I don’t draw or do Graffitis or murals I do graphic and web design. I also take time to be with my family and to play

with my 2 sons, precious moments and I don’t want to let my work take over it.

Do you have a favorite color or palette ?

Black, White and Red to be graphic but when I am in front of my favorite spray paint palette I can’t choose only one I want to use each colors it’s like candies for me.

If you could be anything other than an artist, what would you be?

A mad scientist ;)

“Graffiti is not about clean lines, pretty colors and beautiful blends. Graffiti is my life’s turbulence and perceptions exploded on a wall.”

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A massive wall in the heart of the small and charming mountain village of Finhaut in Switzerland.

This wall is one of the biggest mural painting in Eu-rope, not far to have been officially considered to have a world’s record for its huge surface (1’640 Square Feet). Unfortunately at the same time a Greek artist did a more bigger one (2’130 Square Feet) in his own country by using only black colors... This wall is an impressively detailled work with a color palette of more of 125 different tones, 300 aerosol spray cans used, 250 liters of white primer, a hundreds of various sized caps and nozzles !

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Close detail of the Grande Dixence dam done only with spray paints.

Finhaut, Switzerland - 2010

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First part done from September trough October 2009 Second part done from April trough June 2010

Spraycans: 600 (Belton Molotow)Cherry Picker: 2 different modelsGloves: 0 (dirty hands writer) White Primer Paint: 300 LSize: 507 M2 / 5’460 FT2Working Time: 5 monthsAnti-Tag Varnish: 75 LCaps: 1’000 (mixed)Altitude: 1250 MGrey Paint: 25 LPaint Stick: 3Locals: 340Brushes: 2Rollers: 5Mask: 2

Haters: 15%Lovers: 85%

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Close detail of the Grande Dixence dam done only with spray paints.

Finhaut, Switzerland - 2010