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Brian Lucas aka Oeno. Original work made with felt pen and spray paint, exclusively in favor of the operation "One tent one life". Signed. 235 x 77 cm Brian Lucas has had as many lives as he has aliases. This 46 year old artist already had the honors of the Times and the opening of the television news on May 1, 1991, under the pseudo of Oeno, after having covered with tags the Louvre metro station. Then, hidden behind the alias JR Ewing, he was the DJ and producer of rappers or collectives like Daddy Lord C., La Cliqua or Ideal J. After changing his name several times (Mush, Cen Kent...) to avoid being found for each of his acts of vandalism, Brian Lucas came back to Oeno when it was time to trade the subway cars for canvases. I had come up with the name in class when we were studying Racine's Phèdre," he recalls. There was the maid called Oenone, it turned into Oeno." And the child from Melun (Seine-et-Marne) quickly traded his pencils and notebooks for bombs and markers in Paris. "There is adrenaline when you write your name everywhere, and signing has become a drug," says the artist, who is now quoted between 200 and 20,000 €. But before being the target of collectors, at the end of the 1980s, he was especially in the sights of public services by dint of covering entire cars, inside and outside, with his graffiti. He even exports his "talent". In 1989, when there were threats from the IRA, I tagged the London Underground," recalls Brian Lucas. I was spotted and chased by three helicopters that didn't catch me. But given the amount of time I'd spent graffitiing, I could have planted all the bombs I wanted." The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, protective due to its structure, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese technique of paper folding.

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Brian Lucas aka Oeno. Original work made with felt pen and spray paint, exclusively in favor of the operation "One tent one life". Signed. 235 x 77 cm Brian Lucas has had as many lives as he has aliases. This 46 year old artist already had the honors of the Times and the opening of the television news on May 1, 1991, under the pseudo of Oeno, after having covered with tags the Louvre metro station. Then, hidden behind the alias JR Ewing, he was the DJ and producer of rappers or collectives like Daddy Lord C., La Cliqua or Ideal J. After changing his name several times (Mush, Cen Kent...) to avoid being found for each of his acts of vandalism, Brian Lucas came back to Oeno when it was time to trade the subway cars for canvases. I had come up with the name in class when we were studying Racine's Phèdre," he recalls. There was the maid called Oenone, it turned into Oeno." And the child from Melun (Seine-et-Marne) quickly traded his pencils and notebooks for bombs and markers in Paris. "There is adrenaline when you write your name everywhere, and signing has become a drug," says the artist, who is now quoted between 200 and 20,000 €. But before being the target of collectors, at the end of the 1980s, he was especially in the sights of public services by dint of covering entire cars, inside and outside, with his graffiti. He even exports his "talent". In 1989, when there were threats from the IRA, I tagged the London Underground," recalls Brian Lucas. I was spotted and chased by three helicopters that didn't catch me. But given the amount of time I'd spent graffitiing, I could have planted all the bombs I wanted." The ORIG-AMI is a cardboard shelter measuring 117 x 235 x 150 cm. It is insulating, protective due to its structure, foldable like an accordion, transportable like a backpack and recyclable. The homeless shelter was designed on the principle of origami, a Japanese technique of paper folding.

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