It is the initial spot of the
street art movement in Paris in April 2000. Le Mur was at this time an advertising billboard was firstly hijacked by artist
Hephaestus in spring 2000.[1]
In 2007 it became an officially sanctioned street exhibition space.[2]
Patrick Nguyen & Stuart Mackenzie, Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2010.
ISBN978-3-89955-290-4, (p. 185)
References and notes
^Shigenobu Gonzalvez, Guy Debord ou la beauté du négatif, Nautilus, 2002. The first edition of the book in 1998 at édition Mille et une nuits, "les petits libres" was not illustrated, the 2002 edition gave examples of
Guy Debord impact in recent art works. Among them was shown a work by a situationist artist called Hephaesus showing a
Canal+ advertising with
Keanu Reeves for the movie
Matrixhijacked as "Pour les bonnes c'est réel, pour les autres c'est virtuel, Guy Debord ne passe que sur
ATTAC+" (For the maids it's real, for the others, it's virtual, Guy Dedord can only be seen on the ATTAC+ Tv channel).
^Le Mestre, Bérénice (29 August 2012).
"Astro, street art filant" (in French). Libération. Retrieved 8 September 2012.