Akroe

The painter and graphic designer Etienne Bardelli , known as Akroe , is one of the main actors of the French scene post- Graffiti. The name Akroe does not have etymology, the artist justifies the termination " e" like the architectural pillar of the word: “if it is removed, very crumbles”. Fascinated by the drawing, it starts with tagger in the street with the beginning of the year 1990, before studying the Applied arts and the Graphisme. This formation then gives a more professional orientation to its practice of the graffiti. Dehumanized industry and architectures are also important sources of inspiration, frays to a nostalgic vision of the Jura, area where it has grows.

Installed with Paris since 1998, it posts and paints in the streets and the places forgotten of all, of the graphics often treated in Bichromie, resulting from a personal universe where the imaginary one holds head with reality. That it is of orders or personal practice, research holds a considerable place in its work. It is interested in particular in the bonds between the image, its support and its context, playing with the way in which one can read his creations.

He works mainly for various label discographic S independent of music Electro or Hip-hop and for marks of clothing. Akroe took part in particular in the creation of the visual identity of the group including all taxes.

A book is devoted to him in the collection “Design&Designer” at Pyramyd

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