Street Art Graffiti In Africa

• Melbourne, Australia is home to one of the world's most active and diverse street art cultures and is home to pioneers in the stencil medium. Street artists such as Blek le Rat and Banksy often exhibited works on Melbourne's streets in the 2000s. Works are supported and preserved by local councils. Key locations within the city include Brunswick, Carlton, Fitzroy, Northcote, and the city centre including the famous Hosier Lane.
• Italy is very active in street art since the end of the 90's, the artists involved are many and some one worked in several countries in the world like BLU, others are better known in Italy. Any list would be incomplete but some of them are: ( RUN, DEM, Ericailcane, OZMO, 108, Stan & Lex, Lucamaleonte, Andreco, Moneyless, 2501, BR1, Mp5, Hitnes, orticanoodles, James Kalinda, Centina, Cyop e Kaf, diegomiedo ) Some of the most important italian street art festival are "POPUP!" in Ancona and "FAME festival" in Grottaglie, Puglia.
• Paris, France is also a very active street art scene with artists such as Space Invader, Zevs, Mosko et Associés, Mesnager, Zoo Project.
It started with the Letterism and then with a situationnist slogan painted on a wall in Paris. The nouveau realist, including Jacques Villeglé, Yves Klein and Arman interact with public space but stay, like Pop Art in a classic studio/gallery relation. On 1962, The Rideau de Fer (Iron Curtain) By Christo and Jeanne-Claude is an example of early uncommissioned art. The Same year sees the first can spray work by pioneer Gérard Zlotykamien. After the "chienlit" (expression coined by General De Gaulle to qualify the may 1968 mini-revolution, Paris, like New-York has major city works but no Factory as important as Warhol's. In the 1970s, the work of Daniel Buren is seen in Paris subway. With the election of François Mitterrand in may 1981, a "new deal" of public space raise in Paris. So artist like Miss.Tic , Blek le rat, Jérome Mesnager make their first intervention in the street. Blek le rat is one major known influence of Banksy. The late 80s sees writers like Joneone from New York settling in Paris. A long movement of translation that can be observed until the 00s for Seen arrives in Paris after the 9/11. Another urban art movement spottable in the 80s in Paris is the Figuration Libre (a term coined by Ben) galaxy within gravitates a urban painter collectives (gluing their paintings on paper on publicity billboards) like Les Frères Ripoulin ( Including OX, Claude Closky, Pierre Huyghe, Nina Childress and Jean Faucheur) or Les Musulmans fumants (including Vincent Cassel in its fanbase). Tony Shafrazi makes the connection between Paris in New York. In the mid 90s, Paris was the "Second city of Hip Hop". Notable figures : André and l'Atlas . In 1998, Space Invader and Zevs start their invasion in Paris.