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Christian Guémy alias C215 is a major French artist on the street art scene. Forty-five years old, he mainly works with stencil with a very recognizable style. Apart from his interventions in the streets of the whole world, C215 presents his portraits painted on recycled objects in many galleries, in France and abroad, including the Vent des Cimes gallery in Grenoble.

C215's favorite subjects are childhood, the neglected, the anonymous, lovers, but also animals (especially cats), represented in his urban paintings. His main model is his daughter Nina, born in 2003. Her style ranges from duotones to the most colorful compositions. The dimensions of his works remain on a human scale, only rarely producing very large painted walls. A fervent admirer of Caravaggio, C215 wants to put poetry in street art and emotion in the heart of disembodied cities. His anonymous faces with expressive features testify to his need to rediscover a certain humanity.

“My works place the invisible among celebrities. Through these faces, I want passersby to confront their own humanity.

A committed street artist, C215 produces numerous works for the benefit of causes or to pay tribute to personalities, heroic people and victims. In partnership with the Panthéon, C215 produced the portraits of the illustrious people buried there (Simone Veil, etc.).

Opening its doors to urban art, the Galerie Vent des Cimes offers a range of works by C215 (silkscreens, lithographs, stencils, paintings on canvas, wood and objects).

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