L'ATLAS

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French artist Jules Dedet Granel, known as L'Atlas, was born in 1978. His research into writing has inspired his plastic and pictorial work, in which L'Atlas creates original typography after studying calligraphy in various countries and cultures.

 

L'Atlas aspires to create a universal pictorial language balancing form and letter, act and intention. His art presents infinite variations, drawing inspiration from optical, abstract and geometric art.

 

In the 1990s, L'Atlas made a name for itself in the field of graffiti, intervening radically in public spaces. Since the 2000s, L'Atlas has been working in his studio and exhibiting his work in contemporary urban art galleries.

 

As a major figure in the internationally recognized street art scene, L'Atlas is renowned for his painted facades and monumental performances in cities, notably his work on historic sites such as the wind rose at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2008, or the Place du Capitole in Toulouse in 2012. These performances are captured as frame-by-frame videograms by the artist.

 

L’Atlas has also collaborated with major brands, such as Perrier, where he brought his "Poptic’art" touch, a movement combining optical art and pop art, for which he coined the name. L’Atlas also worked with Agnès b., enhancing the designer’s clothing, as she is one of his most loyal collectors.

 

L’Atlas’s artistic approach is unique, as he constantly renews his expression of the letter and the line, seeking the boundary of the illegible and methodically evolving toward abstraction and minimalism. L’Atlas considers every form as a letter and vice versa, which led him to collaborate with urban planners to give a third dimension to his art and restore meaning to the architectural dimension of his work in public space.

 

Today, L’Atlas is an artist whose rigorous work explains his success with collectors, the public, and institutions.