Street Art #150 Turf One, Montreal (Canada)
WHERE
Alley between Avenue de Chateaubriand and Rue Saint-Hubert closed to the subway station Beaubien, Montreal, Canada.
WHO
Born in 1976 in Paris, now based in Montreal, Turf One aka Jean Labourdette is a street-artist, illustrator, comic artist, painter. He started graffiti in the streets of Paris. His unique style looks like the 15th century Flemish Primitives.
This mural was painted in order to awaken the collective conscience against the new Montreal's law of segregation against specific breeds of dogs (like Pitbull). The law has been abolished since...
More about his work (source : his website) :
^Le Chien Qui Fume, Acrylic, 2016
Le Roi de la Ville, Acrylic, 2014 >
WHEN
- 2016. Still Visible.
Sources
My Old Posts about Street Art
#149 Monk.E, Montreal
#148 Dodo Ose & Ankh One, Montreal
#147 Waxhead, Montreal
#146 Zema, Montreal
#145 Fonki, Montreal
Bonus Video
Shining Darkness: A Portrait of Jean Labourdette.
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