citylikeyou — 15 Avenue de la Porte de la Villette

Paris / Music Venue

Cool place, good music !

Address
15 Avenue de la Porte de la Villette, 15 Avenue de la Porte de la Villette, Paris, France

Current city: Paris

Clément Mancini is a French contemporary artist who lives and works in Paris. After his studies in graphic arts, he moved to Lyon for 6 years where he developed a work of murals paintings in which abstraction took more and more importance. Close to his graffiti roots and to the energy that emanates from the street, he seeks to reinterpret in his works this energy mixing balance in compo- sition and movement, as in the treatment of line and texture. Now working mainly in his studio, he loves to shake up his painting prac- tice.and techniques, he describes his work as constantly evolving.

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Paris / Bar

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