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Absurd and Unlucky Scenarios Unfold in Levalet’s Site-Specific Street Art

French artist Charles Leval, who works as Levalet (previously), is attuned with the nonsensical and hapless, which he translates into clever site-specific works in craft paper and India ink. Often built off of public architecture like windows and sidewalks, his streetside wheatpastes either typify a bad day or find humor in the odd and absurd: new works feature an angry pack of dogs, a construction worker planting an already blooming flower in concrete, and a golfer putting into a drainpipe. Levalet's characters tend to be life-sized and depicted with…

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A Collaborative Photo Project Imagines a World Where Street Artists Have Free Rein

What would artists create if all of the world's surfaces could become a canvas? Joseph Ford—of Invisible Jumpers fame—responds to this question in a new project called Impossible Street Art. Collaborating with eight artists including Peeta (previously), Levalet (previously), and Victoria Villasana (previously), Ford reimagines the possibilities of public spaces that are otherwise inaccessible due to scale, safety issues, or restrictions. To begin the project, Ford photographed the locations, which include the Panthéon, the Seven Sisters cliffs in Sussex,…

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Quirky Site-Specific Wheatpastes by ‘Levalet’ Bring Humor to the Streets of Paris

Artist Levalet (aka Charles Leval) has been extremely busy this year, bringing his unique brand of nonsensical wheatpastes to locations all over Paris. His temporary interventions show a wide range of disheveled characters caught in a world of mischief and misfortune, as they appear to interact with the building facades onto which they are pasted. Levalet's artworks first began to appear outdoors in 2012, but he's since begun to produce entire shows of paintings, sculptures, and various assemblage pieces for display indoors that are no less enchanting. Levalet's latest solo show titled Little Boxes opens tomorrow at OPEN WALLS in…

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New Humorous Urban Interventions by Levalet Combine Wheatpaste Artworks with Public Architecture

Artist Levalet (previously) headlined this year's Roads Street Art Festival, which brought together street mosaics, basketball, DJs, and more in Orleans, France this past April. For the festival, Levalet (a.k.a. Charles Leval) created several new craft paper and India ink works which include a large-scale chameleon, hazmat suit-clad mailmen, and a car crammed onto the side of a glass elevator shaft. Levalet continues his tradition of producing life-size or larger-than-life works, while also injecting humor into these urban additions. In another new work for Orleans, a man rests on top of an electrical…

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French Artist ‘Levalet’ Injects Humor into the Streets of Paris with New Site-Specific Street Art

A bronze bull head fountain is suddenly transformed into a Minotaur. A decrepit corner of an alley becomes a holding pen for ostriches. If any of these odd happenings sound familiar to you, you’re probably living in Paris and have just witnessed the work of French artist Charles Leval (previously). Assuming the name Levalet, the artist injects humor into the streets of Paris by gluing animal and human-shaped paste-ups onto walls. A lot of thought goes into location too as each piece usually interacts with its environment in one way or another. Levalet has been updating his site and facebook…

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Shadowy Optical Illusion Mural by Strøk in Italy

As part of the Memorie Urbane street art festival in Italy, Norwegian stencil artist Anders Gjennestad (aka Strøk) painted this shadowy mural on the side of an old school. This is just one of numerous pieces created for the festival including many Colossal favorites like Pixel Pancho, Seth Globepainter, Pablo Herrero, Natalia Rak, Levalet, Ernest Zacherevic, Etam Cru, David de la Mano, and Alice Pasquini.  

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