MIMI the clown has won FOTW this week. He’s an awesome stencil artists with deep meaning behind his work and how he started. A lot of his stencil work has the big red nose we all associate with clowns, the common theme throughout his work. MIMI, another Parisian artist, is full of orginality and postive meaning.

Below is a quote from his flickr page, some great words that made be sit up and read closely.

1916: the world is in the middle of a world war; the one meant “to end all wars”.

2008, or 92 years later (i.e. after a second world war and a host of other diCTators and plenty of genocides) human beings are even deeper in the shit. CAPITALISM has completely enslaved them while also destroying the planet’s resources.

” (…) as of now we want to shit in varied colours to deck the zoological gardens of art ”

Tristan Tzara, manifesto of mr antipyrine, 1916

After studying knife-throwing and as a failed tap-dancer I started to take an interest in the world of show business, circus and masks. By going to the SUPERmaRket, by watching TV, by listening to politicians and slaving away every day for a few euros I realised that the show went much further than the stage that used to fascinate me. It was everywhere. Everywhere!! With intelligent giraffes, elephants and poodles!! Zebra tamers, acrobats but above all clowns. A countless number of ClowNs, everywhere! Wooooow, isn’t (real) life magic!

6 and a 1/2 years of internments as well as of exhibitionS in every clinic in France later AND still I go on PAINTING. Painting that is intentionally miLITAnt, offhand and concession free ($$$$).

(turn off your mobile and sit down; open your eyes wide, the show’s started already!)

Paris, France

Links:
MIMI’s Flickr