Gouzou is the name of a street art character created by Jace.

Here’s a selection of those crazy characters that you can find all over the world by watching the streets.

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Today is a special day : The Jace Day!

Jace is a famous street artist. You can find is work all over the world. He’s the creator the Gouzou characters. For the Fatcap Graffiti Blog readers, here’s a biography of him and some pictures of his faboulous artwork.

JACE lives on Reunion Island, a small French island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. He moved there in 1982 aged just 9 years old. Jace was initially inspired by the New York style graffiti from the Martha Cooper’s book “Subway Art”, and he began his street stuff in 1989. Developing his own style over the next few years, Jace created his famous character “Gouzou” in 1992. Although Jace continues to paint traditional murals, his real talent lies in interacting with his environment in a very humorous way using his small character. Indeed, Gouzou can be found on bill boards where Jace has taken advantage of the picture and used him to ridicule the original advert.

There are currently 4 books detailing Jace’s paintings and street installations, the first of which was printed in 1999. Since then Gouzou has become a real icon of Reunion Island where he is recognised by everyone. Jace also has hundreds of fans who often go “hunting” with their camera to catch each and every one of Jace’s practical jokes. However Jace’s talents are not limited to just Reunion Island as Gouzous can also be found in London, Rome, Prague, Paris, Le Havre (France), Mayotte Island, Bali (Indonesia), Madagascar Island, Mauritius Island, New York, Budapest, Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Barcelona, Macao, and many more places.

However, Gouzou can sometimes be rather mischievous and disobedient and his father Jace needs to be very strict, and at times he will enclose Gozou in a gallery for several weeks. But Gouzou will quickly finds his way back to freedom. But perhaps the irrepressible nature of Gouzou really just symbolises Jace’s own sense of adventure; “nothing can stop me; neither the fines, nor the jail, nor the mountain or the seas, nor the future of street art when the fashion ends…” So the spirit of Gouzou lives on.

Jace Official site

Street art and graffiti by Jace