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“First Belgian Punk Expo”

Poch , 2014

Stencil and spray paint on silk paper 300 gr

70 x 70 cm

Artist

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Poch

"I begin with work that was very much based on the Punk-Rock era with representation of characters painted in acrylic and natural size, then glued into the streets. I entered into a dialogue with the viewer. The anachronistic characters that I represent are the actors who contributed to the excitement of the punk rock scene in the late 70 early 80 in France and Belgium. True to the iconographic codes of my younger years, I idealize these snapshots of a bygone era when ‘perfecto’ rhymed with ‘chaine de vélo’, subutex with triplex."

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