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Some recently discovered artwork by French artist Invader (a.k.a., Space Invader) on the High Line in Chelsea, in New York City. Invader is the cousin of Thierry Guetta, a.k.a., Mr. Brainwash, who was the subject of Banksy’s film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop.”
New York street art: French street artist (Space) Invader uses tiles to create pixelated mosaic images of retro-1980s videogame characters, a la Space Invaders, in public spaces. This work in Nolita, New York City depicts an early model of a self-contained Apple Mac computer.
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New York street art: Another shot of fresh artwork by French street artist (Space) Invader, who uses tiles to create pixelated mosaic images of retro-1980s videogame characters, a la Space Invaders, in public spaces. We featured a few other shots of this work previously.
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New York street art: Another rectangular-tile mosaic of 1980s retro-videogame imagery by French street artist Invader. This artwork is on Spring Street in Nolita, near SoHo. Unlike in many of Invader’s work, this mosaic establishes a context for the videogame image: an all-in-one ’80s Apple Mac computer.
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New York street art: Detail of the mosaic by French street artist Invader on Spring Street in Nolita.
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French artist Space Invader strikes Barcelona with his signature mosaic of the videogame icon. This one is black, which is kind of unusual for Space Invader. Usually his mosaics employ brighter colors. This is our favorite of all his works, which we’ve seen in several cities throughout Europe and North America the past few years.
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The French artist who goes by the name Space Invader has put up work at 11 Spring Street in NoLIta, New York City. Space Invader puts up small mosaics that look like jaggy, pixelated representations of characters inpired by the 1980′s Atari arcade game of the same name.
We’ve been in France for the better part of the last two weeks, so there’s been a bit of a hiatus here at the Global Graphica site. But we’re back with a vengeance and loads of new images of street art and graf and more from France. We took these shots while wandering around neighborhoods in the centers of Paris and Dijon.
The work and moniker of street artist Space Invader is inspired by the 1980′s Japanese arcade video game sensation “Space Invaders.” The artist’s mosaics are large renderings of the digitally pixelated alien from the video game, and the tile-works come in various sizes and colors. We found this example of Space Invader in the trendy and gallery-filled Saint Germain-des-Pres neighborhood of Paris, which like many central nabes in the French capital is made up of expensive residential and commercial real estate.
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The work and moniker of street artist Space Invader is inspired by the 1980′s Japanese arcade video game sensation “Space Invaders.” The artist’s mosaics are large renderings of the digitally pixelated alien from the video game, and the tile-works come in various sizes and colors. We found this example of Space Invader in the trendy and gallery-filled Saint Germain-des-Pres neighborhood of Paris, which like many central nabes in the French capital is made up of expensive residential and commercial real estate.
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Here’s another up-close image of the trademark tile-work by street artist Space Invader in the Saint Germain-des-Pres neighborhood of Paris.
Ivan Corsa Photo
We’ve been in France for the better part of the last two weeks, so there’s been a bit of a hiatus here at the Global Graphica site. But we’re back with a vengeance and loads of new images of street art and graf and more from France. We took these shots while wandering around neighborhoods in the centers of Paris and Dijon.
The image here is a close-up shot of the well-known street artist Space Invader, whose work can be found in just about every major global city — from New York to Tokyo to, well, Paris. We found this example of Space Invader in the trendy and gallery-filled Saint Germain-des-Pres neighborhood.
Ivan Corsa Photo
If you look closely you can see the Paris-based artist Invader’s signature “space invader” mosaic (inspired by the classic videogame of the same name) on the facade above this bookstore in Santa Monica. (For a detailed view scroll below.) This location is in a highly visible area filled with shoppers and tourists and surrounded by trendy stores like the Adidas Store, Puma, the Apple Store, Urban Outfitters, J. Crew and so on.
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Well-known in the global street art underground, the French artist who goes by the name Invader has left his mark on Third Street in Santa Monica with his iconic mini-mosaic (above) of the “alien” from the classic arcade videogame Space Invader. The name has a double meaning–it not only references the artwork and its source, but is also a reminder that technically, without permission, even putting up aesthetically pleasing little tiled artworks is vandalism and as such makes this artist an “invader” of space, be it private or public.
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