L’Atlas is a Parisian artist born in 1978. Fascinated by handwriting from an early age, he travelled to various Arab countries in the 1990s to study calligraphy. In France, he began developing his graffiti art in the 2000s, combining it with his passion for writing. The balance between form and letter has been at the heart of his practice ever since. Using spray paint, gaffer or scotch tape, he is known to work on canvases, sidewalks and building facades alike. Atlas creates a meandering alphabet that, anchored in the city, invites us to question the universality of language and the limits of the illegible.
This monograph presents the many variations of the artist’s codified language. Between optical art, abstraction, street art, pop art and minimalism, L’Atlas’s artistic creation shows its multiple facets.