Hey party people! Here’s an amazing artist: Dan23. He wrote for the fatcap worldwide graffiti blog a little text to explain his art. Here we go!

My approach follows basically 2 paths. The first is to bring to light people who are fighting for a fairer world, more equitable, and more beautiful. There are important political figures such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Malcolm X …, many artists related to music (James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott-Heron…) because it is a medium that allows you to quickly understand the emotion and artists whose approach I find generous (C215, Titi Freak…), and many other people that I meet.

It seems important to me to point out that, in a difficult and often unfair world, many generous people still remain. I therefore try, to my degree, to be a link, to give emphasis to their struggles and the beauty of their efforts.

My second priority is to try to work on a maximum of different mediums, so my work can benefit a maximum of people. Being self-taught, I began to draw illustrations for magazines, associations, music labels and 2 years ago, I opened my gallery in Strasbourg, which gave me the opportunity to organize exhibitions and meet with artists. From this moment, a sequence was launched: I started to produce a lot, perform exhibitions, and my bulimia pushed me to execute live performances during concerts. I have realized, step by step, that art makes you see the world from a different angle than the one offered by the media, and this thinking pushed me recently to put my creations in the streets and I expect to place as much as possible out there because I believe that art can change our relationship to others, it can gather men to learn how to live better together.

Translation By Yafa