Artist Feature: Charles Leval aka Levalet
Adding a distinct dimension of life to the streets of Paris.
The street art of emerging artist Levalet has a strong focus on design and installation. He stages his scaled-to-life characters by first measuring the spaces in which they will come to life. He then draws them in ink at his studio, referencing staged photographs. Once his renderings are complete, he takes them to the streets, affixing them to public spaces with wheat paste.
His life-like figures participate in a game of visual dialogue with their environment, interacting with the architecture, surprising the passers by, and are often deployed in situations bordering on absurd. Levalet’s cast of characters adds a new and distinct dimension of life to the world in which they live.
Although Levalet’s work can be found throughout Europe, the following galley are images from the streets of Paris.
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Charles Leval, aka Levalet, was born in 1988 in northeastern France. Growing up in the Guadeloupe region, he became familiar with urban culture as well as street art. He pursued his studies of visual arts in Strasbourg, with a focus on painting and animation. Levalet began receiving recognition for his artwork when he began wheat pasting the streets of Paris in 2012. He has since participated in several group and solo exhibitions.