At the Palais de Tokyo, the artist Rammellzee is the object of all the phantasses – Liberation

On the illustrated chronological frieze retracing his life, we discover it, silhouette of tagged stakes, the face barred with profiled sunglasses with white branches. On black and white shots, those around him, BasquiatKeith Haring, posing on sidewalks and in the clubs of the Downtown New York in the early 1980s, became illustrious. Rammellzee, born in Queens in 1960, he went to AS, after having wiped the plaster of graffiti, to which he will not be limited. The Palais de Tokyo replaces him at the center of this scene and beyond. Because, the artist (and rapper, inventor did he pride himself, of the « Gangsta Duck », A deaf and nasillarde intonation) has joined amazing abstract territories in the shape of resinous paintings, in the dough of which sink bibelots and junk pearls.

The exhibition has the great merit of beating to the jerky and feverish rhythm of Rammellzee still poorly known in France despite its influence on many plans of unattless American pop culture. He explained this tension wonderfully at work from the start: “The lines came to me in the dark. I drew because of anxiety, despair, the third electric rail and the cops. I made quick decisions. (…) Graffiti was created in the dark, when you n