TILT: Future primitive

This book traces a history of graffiti art through the evolution of Tilt's work. Starting from writing, this kind of graffiti based on the drawing and painting of letters that many graffiti artists still claim today - including Tilt - who intend to affirm their specificity and oppose a form of resistance to the "street-art" turn. current visual production in the public space. Tilt painted his first eponymous tag in 1990. He knew then that graffiti would be a lifelong passion. The graffiti translates a libertarian, even anarchist, invasive relationship to the city, against the authoritarianism of architecture and town planning, the over-implantation of advertising, the disfigurement of certain districts. Its content, in the practice of Tilt, does not need to be explicitly militant: what is political here is the gesture itself, in an activist form of intervention on the territory. From 2016, Tilt will recreate series of abstractions in the studio. These works provoke the same effect of surprise as that caused by graffiti in the city, they are both inscribed in the subversive origins of graffiti and in the history of painting. Whether it is a "vandal" in the street, where it belongs to everyone, or whether it becomes an object to live in, as decided by the first graffiti artists who took over New York art galleries in the 1970s, the he history of graffiti thus continues to be written.