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ZEPHA

Vincent Abadie Hafez

Né en 1977.

Vit et travail entre paris & Toulouse/ France

Cosmopolite, le travail de Vincent Abadie Hafez est le résultat de métissages, aux confluences de plusieurs cultures.

En 1989 c’est sous le pseudonyme de Zepha qu’il s’investit au sein du mouvement graffiti. C’est en banlieue parisienne qu’il commence à imposer son nom et celui de son équipe ; il ne s’arrêtera pas depuis…

Il s’approprie l’espace public et bouscule certaines habitudes visuelles : un combat graphique utopique s’engage contre un système guidé par un libéralisme sauvage mangeur d’hommes et son enfant terrible, la publicité.

Vincent Abadie Hafez développe un univers graphique et un langage visuel à travers lesquels se croisent l’influence du travail artisanal des anciennes civilisations, la calligraphie, l’immédiateté du mouvement Figuration libre, la spontanéité de l’ Abstraction lyrique et enfin la prise de risque aléatoire du graffiti.

La calligraphie arabe influence fortement son travail par le biais de sa rencontre avec le calligraphe Marocain Abdelatif Mustad et la découverte de l’artiste Soudanais Ahmed Abdel Aal.

Avec le style Kufique animé et le style Diwani, il retrouve le travail de composition, d’équilibre des lettres et la gestuelle propre au graffiti.

Un vocabulaire graphique singulier prend forme révélant un juste équilibre du trait instinctif et de la composition réfléchie, avec comme base de recherche la lettre. Quelle soit latine ou arabe, celle ci est déformée, détournée, reliée, mélangée, accumulée, pour aboutir à une forme d’écriture onirique et labyrinthique.

Contrastes, oppositions et complémentarité enrichissent une production d’œuvres réalisées sur de multiples supports, usés par le temps, porteurs de mémoire, aboutissement d’un questionnement sur ce monde semblant oublier les principes mêmes de son existence…

ZEPHA

Vincent Abadie Hafez

Born in 1977.

Lives and works between Paris and Toulouse / France

Cosmopolitan, the work of Vincent Abadie Hafez is the result of interbreeding, the confluence of several cultures.

In 1989 it was under the pseudonym Zepha that invests in the graffiti movement. It is a suburb of Paris that he began to impose his name and that of his team the GAP since it will not stop ...

He appropriates public space and disrupts visual habits: a graphic utopian fight undertakes against a system guided by a man-eating wild liberalism and his « enfant terrible » : advertising.

In parallel to a street writing work Vincent Abadie Hafez developed a graphic and visual language based on movement, through which intersect the influence of the craftsmanship of ancient civilizations, calligraphy, the immediacy of the movement Figuration Libre, the spontaneity of the Lyrical Abstraction, and finally taking risks random graffiti.

Arabic calligraphy strongly influence his work through his meeting with the Moroccan Abdelatif Mustad calligraphe and the discovery of the Sudanese Ahmed Abdel Aal’s work.

With the Kufic style and lively Diwani style, he finds the work of composition, balance of letters and gestures own by graffiti.

A singular graphic vocabulary form showing a balance of instinctive line and thoughtful composition, as with basic research: the letter .What is Latin or Arabic, it is distorted, diverted, connected, mixed, accumulated, leading to a form of dreamlike and labyrinthine writing.

Contrasts, oppositions and complementarity enrich a production of works produced in multiple formats , worn out by time, memory carriers, the result of a questioning of this world seem to forget the very principles of its existence ...

2010          * In situ intervention & participatory mural painting "during the Toulouse / Saragossa. Spain Exchange

* Exhibition and intervention in situ summer graffiti "in Rignac. France

* Exhibition "Abstract Writing". Particular Gallery. Noumea. New Caledonia.

2009          * "On the wall" Solo exhibition. Mix Art gallery. Toulouse. France.

* Concentrated Urban Street Art Exchange With Saragossa,

Exhibition / In situ achievements. Toulouse. France.

2008         * Exhibition "Science & Art." Labège. France

* Exhibition "Effect to sense." Particular Gallery. Caramans. France.

* Collective exhibition Teheran Biennal. Iran.

2007         * Collective Graffiti Wall Painting. Cergy. France.

* Exhibition Festival i »Courts dans l’herbe » St Maur. France.

2006         * Live painting. Opening Of The Final Macadam Derby. Marrakech. Morocco.

* In situ facilities. Against Racism Festival. Cergy University. France

* Exhibition "Let the Walls Fall Down" for a Palestinian state. Niemeyer Space. Paris. France.

2005         * Exhibition. St Eustache Outdoor Gallery. Paris. France.

* 1 st price awards.100 Contests Urban Culture. Cergy. France.

2004          * Exhibition and collective painting the 100th anniversary of Humanity Festival. France

2003          * Exhibition "Big Squat". First price Val d'Oise. Young's Creators Cergy Tile Gallery.

* Collective Biennial Exhibition "Rêv'art. Bezons. France.

* Exhibition "Walking Through today's art." Van Gogh Gallery. Auvers sur Oise. France.

2002          * Exhibition "Nomads culture festival."

* Exhibition "Clouds Foundation. Arab world's Institute. Paris. France.

2001          * French Alliance-Nairobi-Kenya:

- Street Kids Workshop

- Collective exhibition with Nairobi Museum's artists.

* Exhibition Gallery Boulevard Bourdon. Paris. France

1999          * Exhibition 13 Gallery. Paris. France.

1998          * Exhibition "Créactifs. » The Square Gallery. France.

* Exhibition "Go To" Pingeot & Gerbi gallery. Paris. France.

1998-2010 * Instructor for art workshops Working With The NGO Lezart Collective

Scenography, installations, graffiti, calligraphy, painting, Infography, sculpture, assemblage, silkscreen, mosaic ...

EDUCATION

BT Designer layout artist graphic art option. Maximilien Vox. Paris.fr

Grafism graduate. Gobelins. Paris. France

Training in calligraphy with artist Abdelatif Moustad.

Training Brassware and metalworking with artist Guy Labrouche.

abadiehafez@gmail.com

Ghetto Art Project 

6, Passage de la porte comprise

95800 Cergy

France