Mardi Noir
Website: www.mardinoir.tumblr.com/
Exhibitions
Works
Finger weg!
Mardi Noir Hand Moellerh
Copyright: Karl Heinrich Veith
Date
2024, in situ
Description
The artistic signature of Arzhel Prioul, alias Mardi Noir, is easily identifiable in Finger weg! The French street artist uses the symbolic language of pictograms, removing them from their usual, rational context, enlarging them to reveal their composition of individual colour pixels, and placing them in unusual locations. This is a piece with a humorous undertone that questions the legitimacy of authority and symbolic language per se. Mardi Noir’s works are spread across the entire ironworks site and thus require careful observation. One thing should be borne in mind, however: Finger weg! (Hands off!)
Christian Jene
Achtung, Achtung!
Mardi Noir 1
Copyright: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte / Hans-Georg Merkel
Date
2019, in situ
Dimensions
1,7 x 3,9 m
Material
Papier
Description
Typical for the Breton Arzhel Prioul, aka Mardi Noir, is that he takes pictograms as a starting point for his works. Like an accumulation of weathered old notices, his work announces the transience of all authority, as does his paper collage Achtung, Achtung! (Attention, Attention!), which was created for the 2019 edition of the Urban Art Biennale in Völklingen. He often uses a projector technique, which makes the roughly upscaled results look uneven and pixelated – but that is intentional.