Blast Wall

5 Feb – 27 Mar – Olivier Megaton, Our Faces On Your Walls
11:30 – 18:30, Wereof, rue Antoine Dansart,

Olivier Megaton directing Transporter 3

Olivier Megaton directing Transporter 3

Olivier Megaton, was born in 1965, exactly 20 years after the US army dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which inspired hid pseudonym. He is best known as the Director of The Transporter 3, staring Jason Stratham, has had a varied career. He initially qualified as a psychologist, but took up a paintbrush instead. Deeply interested in urban culture, he took up street art and his grafitti, whilst his paintings began to be exhibited in galleries, firstly in France and then worldwide. In the nineties, Jean-Baptiste Mondino who encouraged him to take up film making and he has become one of France’s foremost action movie directors.

He has produced a great deal of short films and video clips for well-known or emergent artists, such as Negresses Vertes and JL Aubert and he has made ads for the some of the best known brands like Coca-Cola, Audi and Nike as well as TV shows or soundtracks and documentary films.

In a continuous attempt to work on the image, Oliver successfully managed to adapt his painting techniques to new materials and life experience. So, over the decades, he used aerosol paints, plexiglass and ink paintings. His major theme is to question the way icons are evolving and he succeeds in immortalizing their emotion. He takes special care to prepare his portrays which testify of a moment of life and telling us a full story. With his own language and sensibility, he communicates with everyday people through his artworks, having never truly left his love of street and urban art behind.

This exhibition, in the seriously cool Wereof Gallery is a chance to see this multi-skilled artist return to his roots.

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