L'ATLAS
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BIOGRAPHY
The French artist Jules Dedet Granel, known as L'Atlas, born in 1978, finds the starting point for his plastic and pictorial work through his research into writing. He has studied calligraphy in several countries and cultures and thus creates his own original typographies.
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He is particularly attracted to the idea of creating a universal pictorial language, which is a right balance between form and letter, between act and intention. A game of infinite variations, flush with and away from optical art and the various movements of abstract and geometric art. In the 1990's, he acted radically in the public space, making himself known in the field of graffiti; since the 2000's he has developed a studio work and exhibited his works in contemporary urban art galleries.
L'Atlas has the particularity of systematically seeking and renewing his approach and his expression of the letter and the line, of the codified rhythm of writing, seeking the border of the illegible, and methodically leading his work towards abstraction and minimalism; he considers every form as a letter and every letter as a form, which leads him to work recently with urban planners to give a third dimension to his art and to reinvest the public space in a different way, thus giving a meaning to the architectural dimension of his work
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