Meditate with Brusk

If graffiti is an art of freedom and the street, it is gradually also entering galleries and exhibition rooms. In these old offices in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), for example. In eight weeks of hard work, a collective of graffiti artists, equipped with their spray paint, came to transform the immense space – 4,000 m2 on five floors – into a unique visual experience.

The Frenchman Brusk is one of them. At 50, this Lyonnais already has a long career as a polymorphous artist behind him. He often combines provocation with humor to convey a lucid, sometimes disturbing, image of our world. At the bottom of this corridor with its carefully balanced gradient of volcanic colors, a small group of animals – egret, fox, panda, toucan and a few others – manipulate a huge fire extinguisher to put out the fire of destruction and violence that threatens our planet…

Pope Francis also highlighted the scandal of the collapse of biodiversity: “Every year thousands of plant and animal species disappear that our children will not be able to see, lost forever. (…) Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God with their existence and will no longer be able to communicate their own message to us. We don’t have the right to do so. » ( Laudato si’, § 33). Brusk probably wouldn’t have drawn better.