72 pages Text(s) by Patrick Le Fur 15 x 15 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Critères éditions 2011
The rage to live… the rage to paint. Shaka’s revolution unfolds across the city’s walls and gallery spaces, with spray cans bursting into a multitude of colours. The street artist creates and reassembles portraits and scenes through fragmentation, geometry, hollows and reliefs. Colour becomes part of the material, abstraction emerges within figuration, on the scale of monumental murals. The human being lies at the heart of his work, and every muscle, every shadow, every movement, through their expressive power, creates the persistent impression that faces and arms are breaking free from the wall… bringing emotions vividly to the surface. Evoking Arcimboldo through the compositions of his works, pop surrealism through his graphic style and colours, and hip-hop culture through his choice of subjects, Shaka offers new perspectives on Street Art: a three-dimensional art of dexterity, difference and dimensions.
