Blek le Rat was born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952. He is considered the godfather of stencil graffiti art. He studied painting and architecture. He began his artwork in Paris in 1981. Since then he has had a great influence on today's graffiti and "guerilla art" movements, his main motivation being social consciousness and the desire to bring art to the people. British graffiti artist Banksy has acknowledged Blek's influence saying "every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier."
In October 2006, Blek le Rat had his first solo U.K. exhibition in London at the Leonard Street Gallery. Blek also had an exhibition in December 2009 at the Metro Gallery in Melbourne, a centre of street art in Australia. The exhibition entitled; "Le Ciel Est Bleu, La Vie Est Belle" (The sky is blue, life is beautiful), features wooden panels, canvas, screen-print and photographs. It traces the artist's oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present. (wiki stolen...)
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