By K-Narf
Located in Surfside, FL
K-narf, French (b. 1970)
Collage photo artwork (Graffiti Vans) (2011)
Tape-o-graph photography
Signed lower right, (this one is not editioned and might be unique. the other 2 I have were from an edition of 5)
16 x 12 7/8 inches
K-NARF was born in 1970 in Saint-Etienne, France and now lives in Tokyo.
K-NARF invented PHOTOGRAFFITI a contemporary way of making street photography that lead him to develop his singular Tape-o-Graphy technique. It involves the application of adhesive tape strips on developed photographs in order to manually process the photographs giving them a unique surface texture and extraordinary appearance.
Open to influences from street art and video, he uses the medium of photography as a toy to create and play. Both conceptual and experimental, definitely non-conventional, his work documents, recycles and collects the visual anachronisms of a world in a perpetual mutation. Through the years, K-narf often got support from key figures of the art world such as Teruo Kurosaki (Idee, Tokyo), Rotraut and Daniel Klein-Moquay (Yves Klein Estate), Joel Meyerowitz (pioneer of contemporary color photography), Jacques Attali (French writer), Olivier Gay (Architect & Art collector) and Yoichi Nakamuta (curator & Art producer). He collaborates on regular basic with...
Category
Early 2000s Street Art Tape Photography
MaterialsAdhesive, Tape, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper