Blek le Rat goes Dancin! – a collection of dance images from stencil / street artist Blek le Rat / Xavier Prou:

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Blek le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952, was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and has been described as the “Father of Stencil Graffiti”. Wikipedia

1981 to 1983 the beginning of the stencil graffiti art .I had the idea to use stencils to make graffiti for one reason. I did not want to imitate the American graffiti that I had seen in NYC in 1971 during a journey I had done over there.I wanted to have my own style in the street… I began to spray some small rats in the streets of Paris because rats are the only wild living animals in cities and only rats will survive when the human race will have disappeared and died out.

• Blek le Rat / Old Website
• Blek le Rat / New Website

• White Walls / Blek le Rat
• Blek le Rat: Streetwriting Man / Matilda Battersby / The Independent