Mist: The Rebirth

Although he exhibited his sculptural work in the historic Graffiti Art exhibition at the Musée des Monuments Français in 1991 and was one of the top artists exhibited by agnès b. in 2001, it is no longer necessary to prove that Mist is one of the most important artists in the contemporary urban art scene. Rooted in graffiti, his semi-abstract work is composed of his imp-like signature character playing and dancing with the letters of his name, which merge into meanders of shapes and colours, each more vivid than the last.

In 2021, at the dawn of his fiftieth birthday, Mist is still suffering from Peter Pan syndrome and is still searching for freedom. Match Point, his first exhibition at the Chenus Longhi Gallery in 2019, is therefore a sign of rediscovered pleasure; the pleasure of painting and making on the one hand, but also that of the spectator through a playful scenography multiplying the references to sports (basketball, ping pong...) and to games. While artists from the graffiti writing scene all move intuitively towards abstraction, towards the decomposition of letters, Mist goes even further with its new exhibition The Rebirth. Looking to his own artistic history for the foundations of a new writing, he initiates a new plastic language between decomposition and fragmentation.