Tour Paris 13 - Mehdi Ben Cheikh

105 artists of 18 nationalities, 9 floors, 1 building: this is the challenge taken up in 2014 by Mehdi Ben Cheikh to stage a gigantic ephemeral and international street exhibition. In a deserted Parisian concrete and brick tower doomed for destruction,... More

105 artists of 18 nationalities, 9 floors, 1 building: this is the challenge taken up in 2014 by Mehdi Ben Cheikh to stage a gigantic ephemeral and international street exhibition. In a deserted Parisian concrete and brick tower doomed for destruction, world-famous street art artists were given free space – sometimes to the scale of a whole apartment – to produce themselves and graff up the walls and floors of the entire building. This resulted in the biggest collective exhibition of street art ever imagined, a unique aesthetic and creative space without limits which remained opened to the public for a month before being entirely demolished. This exceptional book wards off the ephemeral nature of the project by reuniting the best images by well-known street art photographers from all four corners of the planet. It immortalizes together the powerful, colourful and evocative artworks that made the success of this major event and stands as a unique reference book on the ntern Less