Real World Street Art

Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Christian Guémy, aka C215, hasn't slowed down one bit since we last interviewed him here on theMET. Most recently, the French street artist traveled around Europe, beautifying the streets everywhere he went.

"I paint in the streets people really belonging to the streets: tramps, but also beggars, street orphans from the poorest countries. This is a stencil tradition by the way," C215 says. "The streets are just my favorite gallery, I've been in love with graffiti since I was a child. Sure I did draw, paint free hand with brushes and with cans, but stencils are the best way to quickly place something beautiful anywhere in the streets, without any fu**ing authorization."