His production is deeply linked to social themes, the protagonists of his works are mainly solitary individuals living in. In addition to his hometown of Paris, he has worked in cities such as Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig, Wiesbaden, London, New York, San Francisco, Florence, Naples, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Marrakesh and Munich. Blek le Rat ( Xavier Prou, Paris 1951) is one of the pioneers of international Street Art and is considered the father of Stencil Art and a reference point for all subsequent street artists, including Banksy. The École de Blek le Rat postulated by the French newspaper “Le Monde” in 1987 included the pochoirists Jérome Mesnager, Marie Rouffet and many more. From 1983, other pochoirists followed his example. He was using a photograph from the French newspaper “Libération” as motif. It shows an old man from Northern Ireland scolding British soldiers in an umbrella cap. At the end of 1983 the duo BLEK separated and Xavier Prou adopted the name BLEK LE RAT.Īlso in 1983, he sprayed his first large-format stencil. His first motifs were small-format works such as rats, tanks and bananas. After that he works with the stencil technique, which he has seen before. In October 1981, they first tried to spray a freehand piece, but in his eyes this failed completely. Blek le Rat first began together with his friend Gérard Dumas as the artist duo BLEK. He studied graphic art and then architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1971 to 1983. The pseudonym is based on the French comic character “Blek le Roc”. Although punks had already used this technique to spread their graffiti before him. He is regarded as the forefather of stencil art (street art) in public space. Blek le Rat (real name: Xavier Prou) was born in 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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