artist/ L’Atlas

France

The French artist Jules Dedet Granel, known as L’Atlas, born in 1978, finds through his research around writing the starting point of his plastic and pictorial work. He studied calligraphy in several countries and cultures and thus creates his own original typographies. He is particularly attracted by the idea of ​​creating a universal pictorial language, which strikes the right balance between form and letter, between act and intention. Game of infinite variations, flush with and moving away from optical art and the different movements of abstract and geometric art. In the 1990s, he acted radically in the public space, making himself known in the field of graffiti; since the 2000s he has been developing studio work and exhibiting his works in contemporary urban art galleries.

The Atlas has the particularity of systematically researching and renewing its approach and its expression of the letter and the line, of the codified rhythm of writing, seeking the border of the illegible, and methodically leading its work towards abstraction. and minimalism; he considers any form as a letter and any letter as a form, which led him to work recently with urban planners to give a third dimension to his art and reinvest public space in another way, thus giving meaning to the dimension architecture of his work.