It's a Stick-Up

36RECYCLAB

STREET MEANS ABOVE ALL GREAT FREEDOM. THERE IS NO BUDGET TO VALIDATE, OR COLLECTOR TO CONVINCE, IT IS TOTAL FREEDOM AND THE VISUAL IMPACT IS EMPHASIZED.

Alexis Cladière, aka 36recyclab, started using stickers and paste-ups in 2001, in the streets of Paris. He cannot really say if the first sticker was a Santa Cruz or Powell Peralta (both skateboard brands). In fact, skateboarding plays an important role in 36recyclab’s inspiration. ‘In a similar way, making art in the streets is an activity for discovering and decrypting the city. When skateboarding, finding parking spaces, marble blocks, stairs, metal bars and inclined surfaces was like a quest that I also follow when I look for locations to paste up my posters.’ 36recyclab describes ...