Parisian buildings and streets covered by French Artist Levalet

Imagination flies free when architecture supports artistic expression

Street art - France

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A curved street grate becomes an umbrella for a shepherd and his sheep, and a construction site is transformed into a fortress for mop-wielding guards in the interactive street art of French artist Charles Leval, better known as Levalet. Seeking inspiration from the Parisian streets, Levalet is known for his site-specific, India ink drawings that playfully interact with their surrounding architecture.

"Topography is very important for me, this is why I always check a place out before I work on it" Levalet said in an interview with Underground Paris. "I try to mix the world of representation with the real world by playing on the physical cohesion of the situations I put up. Architecture supports my work. Then I work on staging the artwork with photographs".

See the selection of Levalet’s work and check out his personal website and Facebook page to learn more about him.

img.0Naval theme

img.1Fortress for mop-wielding guards

img.2Playng with tools

img.3Curved street grate becomes an umbrella

img.4Playfull interaction with architecture

img.5Street art - Levalet

img.6Waitering plants

img.7Lighting

img.8Lift surprise

img.9Information point

img.10False window