SPACE INVADER COTE D’AZUR MAP
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Short Description
By SPACE INVADER
Edition of 50.
Signed and dated by the artist.
Dimensions: 25 x 65 cm
screen print on fine art paper
Year 2007
An introduction to the anonymous French artist whose ‘invasion waves’ have adorned the city streets of more than 30 countries around the world Born in 1969, Invader is the pseudonym of a certain graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Using the 1978 arcade game Space Invaders as the subject for an ongoing project, Invader makes images from ceramic tiles.
These works resemble mosaics or pixilations. He cites Space Invaders as ‘the perfect icons of our time, a time where digital technologies are the heartbeat of our world’. Using ‘guerrilla’ tactics he calls ‘invasion waves’, Invader installs 20 to 50 of these ‘Space Invaders’ in public places within targeted cities.
He describes this project as ‘urban acupuncture’. These ‘invasions’ began in Paris in 1998 and quickly spread to other cities in France. His works have now appeared in more than 30 countries around the world, most famously on the ‘D’ of the Hollywood sign, placed there on New Year’s Eve 1999.
Description
Space Invader – SPACE INVADER COTE D’AZUR MAP
Edition: 50
Size: approx. 25 x 65cm
Description: Numbered and signed by Space Invader.
Year: 2007
Invader is a “street artist” who uses mosaic tiles to create designs based upon the retro computer game “Space Invaders”. His designs can be seen worldwide.
The Invasions are often accompanied by an Invasion Map, the like of which for the Cote d’Azur is below. Many of these Invaders have been killed, either by the public or the authorities or construction workers. Each group has its own, very different reasoning behind the kill. My Flickr page shows a number of Invaders from Cote d’Azur, Paris and London.