SKKI
* born 1967
* lives and works in Paris, France
* graffiti, paste-ups, placards, collages
Parisian artist SKKI has been one of Europe’s most active graffiti and street artists since the early 1980s. He has already imprinted his name throughout the entire world – in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and even on the Berlin Wall during the early decades of the Cold War.
His works today are still strongly influenced by graffiti, but SKKI has for many years now availed himself of a more extensive palette of mediums, styles, and topics for the implementation of his works in public space. In this respect it can be noted that the Paris-based artist appears to harbor a special passion for dichotomies, for his works frequently depict thematic opposites, delving into two extremes: humor/despair, capitalist logic/spirituality, absurdity/reason, and so forth. The artist himself stops short of taking any kind of radical stance but instead leaves it up to the viewers to negotiate between the two extremes, to consider both poles and consciously determine whether they even can or should favor a decision between black/white or right/wrong.
