Solo show Zurich

LENZ

2014 JUN 06 – JUL 05

GRAFFITI ITS A CHILD’S PLAY

My encounter with Lenz happened by chance. Unusual as it is, he is not an artist whom I discovered visually but orally.

While I was visiting a workshop in Toulouse, a little more than three years ago, I heard a continual noise of things bumping against one another filling the atmosphere. It was such a familiar sound, which all of a sudden brought back loads of childhood memories. It was very clear that someone was sorting out LEGO pieces.

That’s how I met Lenz and how I was immediately charmed by his creations. A graffiti artist who reproduces his whole universe with LEGO: what a great idea! In order to produce his artworks, he doesn’t hesitate to wander from fleamarket to fleamarket to find the pieces he needs.

This passionate artist knows how to bring us back to our childhood with the most amazing graffiti touch.

“When I met Lenz I was immediately charmed by his creations.”

Julien Kolly, 2014

Graffiti artist from Toulouse (France), Lenz, founds in 2000 with two of his friends, the SDX Crew, with who he emptied his first bombs using urban furniture as initial canvas.Thereafter he joined the TG Crew where he perfected his technique. Over the years, meeting artists, he finally found his place within the collectives TER and VAO .This unendingly inspired artist experiments with different techniques and art media before turning back to his childhood and pursue his first love, the LEGO.

In 2006, he launched a serie of the famous NIKE Dunk made only in LEGO. Since that day, his work is mainly sculptures and paintings in LEGO, though not totally abandoning his bombs.

Today, Lenz has the chance to share the workshop of Tilt, an internationally renown artist, which will allow him to learn a little more each day.