MAXIME DROUET SAINT-DIZIER, 2024 Artist's proof 1/1 Glass'Art print, collage under train window type Z6100 Recessed aluminum frame Atelier Image Collée 47.5 x 78 cm Gift of the artist Graffiti artist since 2000, Maxime Drouet has, for all these years, practiced his art exclusively on trains. Since his first paintings, Maxime Drouet has fortunately taken the time to photograph extensively, documenting a practice that is decried yet consubstantial with modern graffiti. In the course of his wanderings, he has also had time to ponder the beauty and significance of all this. Maxime Drouet's trips to train depots and cemeteries, places of relegation, revealed another reality.

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