Introducing Verticle 75

My friend, David Roos and I have been talking about doing a project in Paris together for a some time. David is the Former head curator of STRAAT in Amsterdam. He’s been a huge proponent of street art for a decade. We kicked around many ideas, eventually we agreed that our first project should meet certain criteria. It should be in a public space, free, and at its core, bring creativity and vitality to the neighborhood.

With the support of the team at L’Ivress, a wine bar in my neighborhood, we launched Verticle 75. Verticle 75 is a rotating wall at 5 Rue Poissonnière in the 2eme arrondissement of Paris. Every 3 months we will invite a new artist to present a new mural on this wall. We hope to bring both varied creative perspectives and engaging work to the Sentier Neighborhood every Quarter.

For our premiere edition we invited L’atlas, a Parisien artist who David and I have both admired for sometime. Enjoy the pics below and if you are in Paris please come by the wall see the work of L’atlas in person, which is a very different experience than viewing some Jpegs on-line. You can follow us HERE and we will keep you up to date the coming line-up